Influence
The community has fostered 11 bishops in different parts of the Anglican Communion. Both of the two founders became bishops in the Church of England. Charles Gore was Bishop of Worcester (1902-05), Birmingham (1905-11) and Oxford (1911-19), and Walter Howard Frere became Bishop of Truro (1923-35). Timothy Rees became Bishop of Llandaff (1931-39) in Wales, and Thomas Hannay became Bishop of Argyll and The Isles in Scotland (1942-62).
Most of the bishops of CR have been connected to the Anglican expansion through mission work outside Great Britain. The third bishop of the six founders, James Okey Nash, became bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town from 1917 to 1930. Nash was the first in a row of CR bishops in Africa. A native born South African, Simeon Nkoane, became Desmond Tutu's assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg from 1982 to his death in 1989. Robert Mercer was Bishop of Matabeleland in Zimbabwe from 1977 to 1989. He then became a bishop of a "Continuing Anglican" church, the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada, from 1989 to 2005. Trevor Huddleston was the only brother who became an archbishop, which was of the Anglican Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean from 1978 to 1983. Before that he was bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Masasi in Tanzania (1960-68), the suffragan Bishop of Stepney in the Diocese of London (1968-78) and bishop of the Diocese of Mauritius in 1978.
In Asia, William Rupert Mounsey was Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak from 1909 to 1916 and Victor Shearburn was Bishop of the Diocese of Rangoon from 1955 to 1966. The community also had a bishop in the West Indies with Anselm Genders, who was bishop of the Anglican Church of Bermuda from 1977 to 1982.
CR has had an influence in excess of its numbers in the development of the Anglican Church in South Africa, especially in the ministry of the brethren Raymond Raynes and Trevor Huddleston in Sophiatown and in the influence of Huddleston and the Community of the Resurrection on Desmond Tutu. The existence of St John's College, (Johannesburg) and its ethos are also almost solely due to its founding fathers; James Okey Nash, Thomson, Alston, Hill and at least 11 others, all of whom were community members. It has been a role model for many Southern African schools.
Other influential members have included Robert Hugh Benson, John Neville Figgis, Edward Keble Talbot, Lionel Thornton, Martin Jarrett-Kerr, Harry Williams, Geoffrey Beaumont and Benedict Green.
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