John Mann (bishop)

John Charles Mann (1880 – January 19, 1967) was an English Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Kyushu in Japan.[1]

A graduate of the University of Glasgow,[2] he was ordained in 1903. During his first curacy at St Luke Maidstone he applied to be a CMS missionary, His mission work for the Nippon Sei Ko Kai started in Nagasaki in 1905. He was consecrated Bishop of Kyushu,[3] an Anglican diocese in 1935.[4] He served until 1940. In retirement he was an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Rochester.[5]

Secretary of the CMS and former Bishop in Kyushu (Nippon Sei Ko Kai). John Charles Mann (6 February 1880 – 28 April 1967)[6] was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1903 (7 June), by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Canterbury Cathedral.[7]

  1. ^ "Mann, John Charles". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 15 December 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Obituary 'Rt Rev J C Mann' The Times Saturday, Apr. 29, 1967 Issue 56928 p.12
  3. ^ National Archives
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory. Oxford: OUP Press. 1964. p. 788.
  5. ^ Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
  6. ^ "Mann, John Charles". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ "Ordinations on Trinity Sunday". Church Times. No. 2107. 12 June 1903. p. 767. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 13 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.