Former Anglican Bishop of Guyana Randolph Oswald George passed away yesterday at his home in Republic Park. He was 92.
His wife Sheila George told Stabroek News that his passing was “in a way very sudden. He was a person who has never been ill.”
She described her late husband as an excellent priest and pastor who was always caring for people. She added that he was very strong in family.
Bishop of Guyana Rt Rev Charles A Davidson when contacted last evening told this newspaper that George became the second Suffragan Bishop of Georgetown in October 1976. “We would have been celebrating 40 years in October,” he said.
George, he added, became Diocesan Bishop in 1980 on the death of former Archbishop of the West Indies Alan John Knight, who was also Bishop of Guyana. He then went on to serve for close to 29 years as Bishop of Guyana after which he later retired.
Bishop Davidson said that he himself was ordained by George in 1978, in addition to most of the clergy in the diocese.
He added that the late Anglican Bishop was responsible for the indigenous ministries in the hinterland and was also responsible for training “all the Amerindian priests and ordaining them.”
George was educated in Barbados and subsequently served the Anglican Church in different capacities in England and Trinidad and Tobago before returning to Guyana at the invitation of the late John Knight.
George leaves to mourn his wife Sheila, and four children.
