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4 unusual facts about Nelson Fogarty


Nelson Fogarty

In 1904 he became Director of the Government Industrial School, Maseru.

He moved to Oudtshoorn in 1895, being licensed as assistant curate of St. Jude’s church, Oudtshoorn on 26 March 1895, and serving as acting chaplain to the Oudtshoorn Volunteer Rifles.

When the missionary Diocese of Damaraland was formed in 1924, he was chosen to be its first bishop, and consecrated as such in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town on Quinquagesima Sunday, 2 March 1924 by the Archbishop of Cape Town, assisted by the Bishops of George, Bloemfontein, and St. John’s, Kaffraria, as well as the Coadjutor Bishop of Cape Town, and Bishop Gaul.

Odibo

St Mary's Mission in Odibo was established in August 1924 by George Tobias, Nelson Fogarty, and Reverend R White, Anglican priest that had the task of setting up a mission in northern Ovamboland.



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