Lucian Usher-Wilson

The Right Reverend

Lucian Charles Usher-Wilson

CBE
Bishop of Mbale
ChurchAnglican Communion
DioceseDiocese of Mbale
Elected1961
In office1961–1964
Predecessor(as Bishop on the Upper Nile) Arthur Kitching
SuccessorErisa Masaba
Other postsBishop on the Upper Nile (1936–1961); Assistant Bishop of Guildford; Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Bristol
Orders
Consecration28 October 1936
by Cosmo Lang
Personal details
Born(1903-01-10)10 January 1903
United Kingdom
Died28 August 1984(1984-08-28) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglicanism
ProfessionAnglican bishop, missionary, teacher
Alma materLincoln College, Oxford

Lucian Charles Usher-Wilson CBE (10 January 1903 – 28 August 1984) was a British Anglican bishop who served in Uganda during the mid-20th century and afterwards in England.

Usher-Wilson was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1927 and priest in 1929. He was a teacher at King's College, Budo from 1927 to 1933; and a CMS missionary until his appointment to succeed Arthur Kitching as diocesan Bishop on the Upper Nile in 1936. He was consecrated as a bishop on 28 October 1936, at St Paul's Cathedral by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Under his initiative, the Diocese on the Upper Nile was split in 1961 and Usher-Wilson remained as diocesan bishop of one part, afterwards called the Diocese of Mbale (so he became the first Bishop of Mbale); he resigned that See in 1964 and became Vicar of Churt and an Assistant Bishop of Guildford. On his retirement to Westbury-on-Trym in 1972, he was the longest-serving bishop at the time in any Anglican church; he became an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bristol. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).