Mark Nye

Mark Nye (1909–1993) was an Anglican bishop and political prisoner in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Education Nye attended the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood in London after which he went up to St. John's College, Oxford, where he was awarded the Andrew Scholarship 11 June 1928. He did his theological training at Cuddesdon College.

Clerical career Nye was made deacon on 17 December 1933 and ordained priest 23 December 1934. He served a curacy at St Luke's Church, Kew, 1933-1937. Nye moved to South Africa and served as rector in three parishes in the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman in the period 1937 to 1951. In 1951 Nye moved to the Diocese of Pretoria and was a priest in charge of the Pretoria Native Mission in Lady Selbourne but based at St Augustine's Church in the Pretoria city center. Later he was rector of St Wilfred's, Pretoria. In 1965 he was appointed as Dean of Pretoria at St Alban's Cathedral. In 1973 he was consecrated as a bishop and served as suffragan bishop of Pretoria, rector of Christ Church, Pietersburg (now Polokwane and part of the Diocese of St Mark the Evangelist ) and as archdeacon. He retired to Cape Town in 1978, where he continued his priestly ministry until 1987.