apostolic delegate to the British colonies in Africa Archbishopric of Apamea Apostolic Vicar of Lower Kenya : Rugambwa
What was the position of David Mathew (bishop) from Feb 1946 to Apr 1954?
David Mathew ( bishop ) David James Mathew ( 15 January 1902 – 12 December 1975 ) was an English Roman Catholic bishop and historian . Mathew was born at Lyme Regis , Dorset , and educated at the naval colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth . He served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy at the end of World War I . He entered Balliol College , Oxford , in 1920 and received a degree in modern history in 1923 . He then went to Beda College in Rome , with the intention of seeking ordination and with a plan to enter the Carthusian order . He was ordained in 1929 , and spent 10 months as a novice at St Hughs Charterhouse , Parkminster , West Sussex , before concluding that he did not have a monastic vocation . After service at St Davids Cathedral , Cardiff , he went to London to become chaplain to the Roman Catholic community at the University of London . In 1938 he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster . He served in London through the Blitz . In 1945 he was named apostolic visitor to Ethiopia , and in 1946 apostolic delegate to the British colonies in Africa . This brought his consecration to the titular Archbishopric of Apamea . His service in Africa was successful , and he helped carry out the Vaticans policy of preparing for the appointment of native African bishops , acting as principal consecrator of Laurean Rugambwa after his appointment as Apostolic Vicar of Lower Kenya : Rugambwa later became the first African cardinal since the days of the early church . Upon Mathews return to England in 1953 , he was appointed bishop-in-ordinary to the British Armed Forces . ( He had refused an appointment to the nunciature in Bern , hoping to receive an English diocese ) . Mathew retired in 1963 and spent the rest of his life writing history . He died in London on 12 December 1975 , aged 73 . Publications . - The Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe ( 1933 ) - The Reformation and the Contemplative Life ( 1934 ) - Catholicism in England , 1535-1935 . Portrait of a Minority : Its Culture and Tradition ( 1936 ) - Steam Packet ( 1936 ) - The Jacobean Age ( 1938 ) - British Seamen ( 1943 ) - The Naval Heritage ( 1944 ) - Acton : The Formative Years ( 1946 ) - Ethiopia : The Study of a Polity , 1540-1935 ( 1947 ) - The Social Structure in Caroline England ( 1948 ) - Sir Tobie Mathew ( 1950 ) - The Mango on the Mango Tree ( 1950 ) - The Age of Charles I ( 1951 ) - In Vallombrosa ( 1952 ) - The Prince of Waless Feathers ( 1953 ) - Scotland under Charles I ( 1955 ) - James I ( 1967 ) - Lord Acton and His Times ( 1968 ) - The Courtiers of Henry VIII ( 1970 ) - Lady Jane Grey ( 1972 ) References . - Kerr , Fergus : Mathew , David James ( 1902–1975 ) , rev. , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , 2004 , accessed 14 March 2008