Henry Pereira | |
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Bishop of Croydon | |
![]() 1904 photograph of Pereira | |
Diocese | Diocese of Canterbury |
In office | 1904–1924 (ret.) |
Successor | Edward Woods |
Other post(s) | Rector of All Hallows Lombard Street (1904–1926) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1869 |
Consecration | 1904 by Randall Davidson (Canterbury) |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 January 1845 |
Died | 1 January 1926 | (aged 80)
Denomination | Anglican |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Henry Horace Pereira (16 January 1845 – 1 January 1926) was an Anglican suffragan bishop during the first quarter of the 20th century.
Pereira was born in 1845, [1] educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1869. [2] He served two curacies [3] before becoming the first Warden of the Wilberforce Memorial Mission in South London. Hampshire incumbencies [4] followed before a 30-year association with the Croydon area (which was then a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, firstly as Rural Dean and (from 1904) Bishop of Croydon, suffragan bishop to the Archbishop. [5] He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul 1904 (25 January), at Westminster Abbey by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury. [6] As an endowment, he was also appointed to All Hallows Lombard Street in the same year; [7] when he resigned his See in 1924, [8] he retained the benefice of Lombard-Street until death. [1]
He was Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, and an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria from January 1900 until her death the following year. [9]
"A man of great energy and a most effective speaker", [10] he died on New Year's Day, 1926.