George Alfred Swartz (8 September 1928 - 1 January 2006) was a South African Anglican bishop. He was the ninth Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman.

Education

Swartz was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

George Swartz

Priesthood and elevation to Episcopate

Ordained in 1955, he began his career with a curacy in Cape Town and held a number of pastoral posts in the area before becoming a suffragan bishop of the diocese in 1972.

George Swartz

Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman

Eleven years later he was translated to Kimberley and Kuruman, in 1983, where he remained until retirement, in 1991.

George Swartz

Link with the Diocese of Atlanta

Bishop Swartz originated a link between Kimberley and Kuruman and the Diocese of Atlanta in the United States of America, and on 5 June 1984 he was awarded Freedom of the City of Compton.

Death

He died in retirement in Cape Town on New Year's Eve 2006.

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1928 births

2006 deaths

20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops

University of the Witwatersrand alumni

Anglican bishops of Kimberley and Kuruman