Timeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
- 1913
- 15 June, Trevor Huddleston is born in Chaucer Road, Bedford, England.
- Huddleston is christened at St Paul’s Church in Bedford.
- 1921-1937
- Huddleston attends Lancing College, Christ Church, at Oxford University.
- 1937-1939
- Huddleston studies theology at Wells Theological College.
- 1939
- Huddleston joins the Anglican Order of the Community of Resurrection at Mirfield in West Yorkshire.
- 1939-1941
- Huddleston serves as the curate at St Mark’s in Swindon.
- 1941
- Huddleston takes his vows.
- 1943-1956
- Huddleston is appointed as priest-in-charge of the Community’s Mission in Sophiatown, South Africa.
- 1949
- Appointed Provincial of the Community in South Africa and Superintendent of St Peter’s School.
- 1955
- December, Father Huddleston is awarded the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe, along with Chief Albert Luthuli and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, the ANC’s highest award.
- Fearing for his safety, the church recalls Huddleston and he moves to England
- 1956
- Huddleston’s book Naught for your Comfort is published.
- 1956-1957
- Huddleston serves as the Guardian of Novices at the CR’s Mirfield mother house in West Yorkshire.
- 1959
- 26 June, Huddleston and Julius Nyerere address the founding meeting of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) in London.
- 1960
- Huddleston is consecrated as Bishop of Masasi, Tanzania (then South Eastern Tanganyika), a position he holds for eight years.
- 1961
- Father Huddleston becomes the Vice-President of the AAM, a position he holds until 1981.
- 1968
- Huddleston becomes Bishop of Stepney – a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of London.
- 1978
- Huddleston is elected as Bishop of Mauritius and first Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean.
- 1981
- April, With the death of Bishop Ambrose Reeves, Huddleston is elected president of the AAM, a position he holds until 1994.
- 1983
- Huddleston retires from the Episcopal office to St James, Piccadilly and accepts the provost-ship of the Anglican-Nonconformist Theological College of Selly Oak, Birmingham. Huddleston is awarded the United Nations Gold Medal.
- 1984
- The Zambian government awards Huddleston with the nation’s highest award, the Order of Freedom 1st Class.
- Huddleston receives the Dag Hammerskjold Award of Peace in the same year.
- June, Huddleston leads an AAM delegation to meet Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to protest the visit of President P.W. Botha.
- 1994
- Huddleston is awarded the Torch of Kilimanjaro from Tanzania and India’s Indira Gandhi Award for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
- 26 April, Huddleston casts his vote for South Africa’s first democratic election at Trafalgar Square in London.
- 1995
- Huddleston returns to South Africa for a short period and spends his last years with the Community of Resurrection at Mirfield.
- 1998
- Huddleston is appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michaels and St George in the 1998 New Years Honours.
- 24 March, At his Investiture Huddleston chooses the designation ‘Bishop Trevor of Sophiatown’.
- 20 April, Huddleston dies at his home in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.
- Huddleston’s ashes are interred at a site next to the Church of Christ the King in Sophiatown.
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