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The Rt Rev Cecil John Patterson CBE CMG CFR DD was an Anglican Bishop in the mid part of the 20th century. He was born on 9 January 1908 educated at St Paul’s and St Catharine’s College Cambridge and ordained in 1932. He was a Curate at Holy Innocents Kingsbury and then a Missionary in south Nigeria before his elevation to the Episcopate as Assistant Bishop (1942) then Bishop on the Niger (1945). In 1961 he became Archbishop of the West Africa.