Former Bishop of Joburg celebrartes 40th anniversary

A festival of events will mark the first month of the new year in Johannesburg with the visit of a former Bishop of the city, the Rt Revd Dom Timothy Bavin.

Bishop Bavin headed the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Johannesburg during the heady days of the 1976 Soweto uprising and the massive socio-political changes that occurred during the 1980s. He will visit Johannesburg at the invitation of Bishop Steve Moreo, the current Bishop of Johannesburg, and St Mary's Cathedral.

As Bishop in Johannesburg, he was frequently in the firing line of the former South African government for opposing apartheid along with Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Bishop Simeon Nkoane and other senior church leaders across denominational lines.

Organiser of the visit, Sidney Place, Organist and Treasurer of St Mary's Cathedral, says: "Bishop Bavin has a keen mind, a wealth of knowledge, and an engaging and entertaining personality. A man of profound spirituality, he was deeply committed to reconciliation, and his vision of a future South Africa was perhaps best underlined by appointing Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in 1975 as Dean of St Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg. Tutu was at the time working as a parish priest in the UK."

Bishop Bavin is currently Oblate Master at Alton Abbey in England.

Bishop Bavin will speak at several public and private events during his visit from 16 to 29 January 2015. These will include preaching at St Mary's Cathedral, Johannesburg, on Sunday 18 January, at the Sung High Mass at which the present Bishop of Johannesburg, the Rt Revd Steve Moreo, will preside.

Further details of Bishop Bavin's visit will be released in early January.

Issued on behalf of St Mary's Cathedral by Quo Vadis Communications

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