Canon Mallory Elected Bishop of Botswana
Diocesan Press Service. August 3, 1972 [72109]
ZOMBA, Malawi -- The Rev. Canon Shannon Mallory has accepted election by the Provincial Elective Assembly of Central Africa as the first Anglican Bishop of the newly-created Diocese of Botswana.
Canon Mallory was born in Texas in 1936 and educated in California, where he first began studying medicine at the University College of Los Angeles. It was there that he met his wife Mondi. On becoming an Episcopalian he switched to theology which he studied at General Seminary, New York.
In 1961 he was ordained deacon and priest in South West Africa by Bishop Robert Mize of Damaraland. One of his early assignments was the establishment of a center for the training of lay readers and catechists. In 1966 he was appointed Archdeacon of Damaraland, near the border of Angola, and made a canon of the Diocese.
Canon Shannon was appointed chaplain to the Diocesan School for Girls in Grahamstown in 1970, and he studied in his spare time for an M.A. at Rhodes University. In 1971 he was appointed to the Department of Religious Studies at Makerere University, Kampala, and was placed in charge of the Diploma in Theology course which is followed by qualified ordinands in Roman Catholic, Protestant and Anglican seminaries throughout East and Central Africa.
It is expected that his consecration and enthronement will take place in Botswana in December.