Religion
Being an Anglican Christian school, the school has strong Christian values, and maintains traditional links with the Diocese of Cape Town. Chapel services held three times a week and once a term Evensong takes place. This represents an adjustment in emphasis, since in the 1990s, services were held every day, with evensongs on Thursday and Sunday evenings. The school chaplain is the Reverend Terry Wilke. The College has two chapels, both central to life at Bishops. The older and smaller Brooke Chapel is used for more intimate services, while the bigger War Memorial Chapel was built in memory of the Bishops boys who died in service in World War I and is used for daily and Sunday services. A total of 112 Bishops old boys were killed in World War I. In 2007, Bishops was used to elect the new Archbishop of South Africa.
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