Mark Napier Trollope was the third Bishop in Korea

Bishop in Korea

The Bishop in Korea was an Anglican missionary appointment from 1889 to 1965 when the diocese was divided..- List of the Bishops in Korea :-Notes:...

 from 1911 until his death. Born on 28 March 1862 and educated at Lancing College

Lancing College

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 and New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

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, he was ordained in 1888. After a curacy at Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth

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 he spent a decade with the missionary team

USPG

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 in Korea

Korea

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. Returning to England

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 he was successively Vicar

Vicar

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 of St Saviour's, Poplar

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and St Alban the Martyr, Bordesley

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. After some debate he was appointed to the post

Bishop in Korea

The Bishop in Korea was an Anglican missionary appointment from 1889 to 1965 when the diocese was divided..- List of the Bishops in Korea :-Notes:...

 to which many others felt he was so suited.

He served as President of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch for 13 years. A keen chronicler of the emerging church , he died of a heart attack on 6 November 1930, brought about by shock when the ship on which he was returning from Europe after attending the Lambeth Conference collided with another vessel while entering harbour in Japan.