Bishop of South Tokyo

The Bishop of South Tokyo was a historic title of a bishop in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, or Anglican Church in Japan.

Edward Bickersteth (1850–1897) was the first Bishop of South Tokyo, from 1886 until his premature death in 1897.[1] He was born at Banningham, Norfolk, into a noted ecclesiastical family; his father was Bishop of Exeter from 1885 to 1900.[2]

The title of Bishop of South Tokyo was suspended in 1947 after the reorganization of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai into eleven dioceses.

  1. ^ The Times (London), Wednesday, January 26, 1898, Issue 35423, p. 7, col. E (Church Missions in Japan).
  2. ^ Biography of father. Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine