| 词条 | Rowan Smith |
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Early life and educationRowan Smith was born on 8 August 1943, the son of Frank and Dorothea Smith.[2] Under the prevailing race laws of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, he was accorded the status of a Coloured person. He was educated at Kensington High School, Cape Town (class of 1960),[3] King’s College, London (Associate, 1966); and at St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster (1966-1967). CareerHe was ordained Deacon in St. Nicholas’ Church, Matroosfontein on 4 June 1967 by the Right Reverend Philip Welsford Richmond Russell, Bishop Suffragan of Cape Town, and Priest in St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town on 9 June 1968 by the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Reverend Robert Selby Taylor.[4] He served successively as Assistant Curate (licensed 4 June 1967); and Assistant Priest (licensed 9 June 1968; served until 1971) of St. Nicholas’, Matroosfontein; Assistant Curate of All Saints’, Plumstead (licensed 10 January 1971; served until 1972); and Priest-in-charge of Grassy Park (licensed 16 April 1972; served until May 1977), all in the diocese of Cape Town. Thereafter, he entered the novitiate of the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, June 1977. He became a professed member of the Community of the Resurrection in 1980, and was then appointed as Chaplain to St. Martin’s School, in the city and diocese of Johannesburg. Released from his vows, he left the Community of the Resurrection in 1987, becoming Anglican Chaplain at the University of Cape Town (1988-1989);[5] and Examining (1989-1990), and Domestic (1990-1991) Chaplain to the Archbishop, the Most Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu, all in the diocese of Cape Town.[6] Between 1991-1996 he served as Provincial Executive Officer of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. In 1996 he was appointed Canon Pastor (1996) and Fourteenth Dean and Rector of the Cathedral Church of St. George the Martyr (installed by the Archbishop, the Most Reverend Winston Hugh Njongonkulu Ndungane, 13 October 1996), all in the diocese of Cape Town. He came out as gay while serving as the dean of the cathedral, and was supported in this by his congregation.[7] RetirementHe retired in 2010,[8] being given the title of Canon. Personal lifeRowan Smith died at his home in Goodwood, Cape Town on 23 May 2018.[9] He was unmarried. Notes1. ^Cathedral Web Site {{S-start}}{{S-rel|sa}}{{S-bef|before=Colin Jones}}{{S-ttl|title=Dean of Cape Town|years=1996–2010 }}{{S-aft|after=Michael Weeder}}{{S-end}}{{Deans of Cape Town}}{{Portal bar|Anglicanism|Biography|LGBT|South Africa}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Rowan}}2. ^Information supplied by the Smith family. 3. ^{{Facebook|rowan.smith.7528/about|name=Rowan Smith}} 4. ^Bishopscourt Archives, Letters of Orders, 1848-1985; Priests & Deacons: Licences, 1964-1987. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} 5. ^St Paul Rondebosch 6. ^Diocese of Cape Town Year Book No. 79 (1989), p. 38; No. 80 (1990), pp. 1, 38. Church of the Province of Southern Africa Clerical Directory,1991/1992, p. 299. 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.news24.com/World/News/Churchgoers-embrace-gay-priest-20030810|title=Churchgoers embrace gay priest|access-date=2016-10-03|work=News24}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.falsebaydiocese.org.za/2010/04/24/sermon-upon-the-retirement-of-dean-rowan-smith/|title=Sermon Upon the Retirement of Dean Rowan Smith|publisher= Diocese of False Bay|access-date=2016-10-03}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/former-st-georges-cathedral-dean-rowan-smith-dies-15126548/|title=Former St George's Cathedral dean Rowan Smith dies|publisher=IOL|access-date=2018-05-23}} 4 : 20th-century Anglican priests|21st-century Anglican priests|Alumni of King's College London|Deans of Cape Town |
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