Hope Gill
Former Bishop of Travancore and Cochin
About Hope Gill
Lived 1861 – 1946 (aged 85). Hope Gill was a curate, chaplain and secretary.
Charles Hope Gill was Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1905 to 1924.
Gill was born into an ecclesiastical family on 11 February 1861 and educated at St Edmund's School in Canterbury, King William's College on the Isle of Man and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1865 and began his career as a curate at St Peter's, Tynemouth. Later he was a CMS Missionary at Shikarpur and then Jabalpur. From 1898 until his consecration to the episcopate he was its Secretary in India.
He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1905 by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey; to serve as the third diocesan Bishop of Travancore & Cochin. On his return to Europe he was Vicar of Gerrard's Cross and then British Chaplain at Hyères. He died on 29 June 1946.
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former Bishop of Travancore and Cochin
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Hope Gill was born on 11 February 1861.
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Hope Gill died on 29 June 1946.
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Hope Gill was a curate, chaplain and secretary.
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