St John Pike


St John Surridge Pike was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century.
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1934, he began his career with a Curacy at Taney. After this he was Head of the Southern Church Mission, Ballymacarrett then Rector of St George’s, Belfast. In 1958 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas. On his return from Africa he became an Assistant Bishop of Guildford and held incumbencies at Ewshot and at Botleys with Lyne and Long Cross until his retirement on 26 November 1983.