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Ambrose Reeves
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Richard Ambrose Reeves (6 December 1899 - 23 December 1980) was an Anglican bishop and opponent of Apartheid in the 20th century.
Reeves was educated at Great Yarmouth Grammar School, served in the Great War and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge — he read history and moral science, graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1924 and proceeded Master of Arts (Cambridge) (MA Cantab) in 1943. He then trained for the ministry at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield and the General Theological Seminary, New York and was ordained into the Church of England: deaconed on Trinity Sunday 1926 (30 May) and priested the next Trinity Sunday (12 June 1927) — both times by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral. In 1931, he married Ada van Ryssan; they had four children.
Reeves' title post (curacy) was at St Albans, Golders Green (1926–1931), during which time he was also secretary of the theological department of the Christian Social Movement. His first incumbency followed, in Scotland: he was Rector of St Margaret's, Leven, where he remained until 1935.
He next served as secretary of the World Student Christian Federation — the worldwide federation of national Student Christian Movements (SCMs) — based in Geneva; and was licensed by the Bishops of Gibraltar and of Fulham to function as a priest within continental Europe. Returning to England in 1937, he became vicar of St James Haydock (between Liverpool and Manchester) until 1942, when he was appointed rector of Liverpool itself (the Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas). While at Liverpool, he additionally served as a canon of Liverpool Cathedral from 1942, and a proctor in convocation for the diocese, from 1945.
On Trinity Sunday 1949 (12 June), Reeves was ordained to the episcopate by Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town, at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town. He served as the third Bishop of Johannesburg (succeeding Clayton) from his consecration until 1961 – his position became untenable when the government of South Africa deported him on 12 September 1960 and he resigned the see effective 31 March 1961.
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