Anselm Genders CR , born Roger Marson Genders and also added the name of Alban when he joined the Royal Navy (15 August 1919 – 19 June 2008[ 1] ), was the Bishop of Bermuda from 1977 until 1982.
Genders was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham and Brasenose College, Oxford [ 2] during which time his studies were interrupted by wartime service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve .
After graduation Genders taught briefly at Dame Allan's School (where he succeeded South African theologian John Suggitt) and then began a long association with the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield ,[ 3] becoming a monk in 1952. In 1955 he was sent as a tutor to Codrington College , Barbados [ 4] eventually becoming its principal . A decade later he was sent to Rhodesia , working first in Penhalonga before being appointed Archdeacon of Manicaland .[ 5]
In 1977, Donald Coggan , Archbishop of Canterbury , asked him accept the Bermuda bishopric vacated by the death of Robert Stopford . Genders was ordained a bishop on 18 October 1977, by Coggan at St Paul's Cathedral .[ 6] Five turbulent years later[ 7] he returned to the College of the Resurrection where he remained for 26 years until his death.
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