James Schuster

James Leo Schuster (1912–2006) was the long-serving 6th bishop of St John's in what was then known as Kaffraria and is now Mthatha.^[1] Educated at Lancing College and Keble College, Oxford,^[2] he was ordained in 1937. Assistant missioner at Rotherhithe until 1938, he was subsequently chaplain at St Stephen's House, Oxford, and then served in the Second World War as a chaplain to the Forces.^[3] In 1949 he was appointed principal of St Bede's College, Umtata, before his ordination to the episcopate in 1956. In retirement he was archdeacon of Riversdale. He died after a long retirement in 2006.

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^ The Times, Thursday, Oct 18, 1956; pg. 2; Issue 53665; col A "New Bishop of St John's"
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^ He was wounded in 1942 and Mentioned in Despatches in 1943

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Bishop of St John's
1956 – 1980

Succeeded by

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v t e Anglican bishops of St John's and Mthatha
St John's	Henry Callaway Bransby Key Joseph Williams Edward Etheridge Theodore Gibson St John Evans James Schuster Godfrey Ashby Jacob Dlamini Sitembele Mzamane (became Bishop of Mthatha)
Mthatha	Sitembele Mzamane (previously Bishop of St John's)