Alan Rogers (bishop)


Alan Francis Bright Rogers was an Anglican Bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.
Educated at Westminster City School, trained for the priesthood at King's College London and ordained in 1932, he began his career with a curacy at St Stephen's, Shepherds Bush. From 1934 he served the Anglican Church in Mauritius, firstly as a missionary priest then as Archdeacon of Mauritius. Returning to England he became Vicar of Twickenham followed by a spell as Rural Dean of Hampstead before appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of Mauritius in 1959. Translated to become Bishop of Fulham in 1966, his final appointment was a sideways move to become Bishop of Edmonton four years later. In retirement he continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop for a further quarter of a century.