Eric Pike

{{Short description|South African Anglican bishop (1936–2021)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Use South African English|date=September 2012}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|RRevd}} | name = Eric Pike | title = Bishop of Port Elizabeth | diocese = Diocese of Port Elizabeth | term = 1993–2001 | predecessor = Bruce Evans | successor = Bethlehem Nopece | other_post = Suffragan bishop of Grahamstown  | ordination = 1968 | ordinated_by = | consecration = 1993 | consecrated_by =  | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|11|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|6|17|1936|11|11|df=y}} | death_place = | religion = Anglican }} '''Eric Pike''' (11 November 1936 – 17 June 2021)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://gatewaynews.co.za/man-of-prayer-and-pilgrimage-bishop-eric-pike-remembered-for-compassion-celtic-christianity/|title=Man of prayer and pilgrimage Bishop Eric Pike remembered for compassion, Celtic Christianity|work=Gateway News|date=2021-06-24|access-date=2022-02-07}}</ref> was a South African Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Port Elizabeth from 1993 to 2001.

He was educated at Graaff Reinet Teachers' Training College and was a teacher at Queen’s College Boys' High School from 1958 to 1965. He trained for the priesthood at St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown and was ordained in 1968. He was assistant priest at St John’s, East London and then rector of St Paul’s, Komga. From 1978 he was archdeacon of East London and then suffragan bishop of Grahamstown before his election in 1993 to the See of Port Elizabeth as its third bishop. He was in office until 2001.

==References and sources== {{Reflist}} {{refbegin}} * Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} * Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976, ISBN (invalid) 0108153674, alternate version: {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}, * Pew Leaflet, 20 June 2021 Cathedral of St Michael and St George, 20 June 2021, {{OCLC|25885092}}, {{OCLC|59162245}}. {{refend}}

==External links== * [http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/?print/U/Print&f=7526&t=n Wits Historical papers]

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