John Holden (bishop)


John Holden was a missionary Anglican bishop.

Biography

He was born in 1882 and educated at Durham University He was ordained in 1907 and went to work for the Church Mission Society in China, becoming in time an archdeacon. In 1923 he became Bishop of Kwangsi-Hunan and was translated to Szechwan in 1933 and later to Western Szechwan. Returning to England in 1938 he became an Assistant Bishop of Truro, Vicar of St Budock, a Canon Residentiary of Truro Cathedral and then Archdeacon of Cornwall. He died on 14 August 1949.