Norman, Canon William B.

Papers of Canon William (Bill) Beadon Norman (b.1926) as General Commissary of the Province of Zaire (from 1997 Congo) and as a trustee and committee member of the Zaire (now Congo) Church Association (CCA).  Bill Norman had been a missionary in Uganda 1955-65 and thereafter done parochial service in the dioceses of York and Birmingham, retiring for the first time in 1991.  He accepted an invitation to be the General Commissary for the newly-separated Province of Zaire in 1992.  As Commissary he became the chief link with the Zaire/Congo Church Association and other support in the United Kingdom.  The papers are chiefly correspondence with local clergy, especially Archbishop Fidele Diropka, and mission partners in Congo and fellow members of the CCA, reflecting the rapidly developing Anglican church in the country, a century after its foundation.  Requests for financial support, including that for the construction of new churches and clergy training, bulk large but there is much that reflects on the general social, political and economic situation.

Further resources:

• pdf catalogue of these records NOR Norman (CCA)
• see also the Papers of Philip Ridsdale Ridsdale, Philip
• see also Newsletters of the Congo Church Association Congo Church Association