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'''Joshua Chiu Ban It''' ({{lang|zh|周万一}}; 1918 – 9 November 2016) was  the [[Bishop of Singapore]] from 1966 to 1981,<ref>[http://www.jamesfamilytree.org.uk/BishopofSingapore.htm Bishops of Singapore]</ref> and was the first indigenous Bishop of Singapore.<ref name="Chapman 2006 p. 84 ">{{cite book | last=Chapman | first=Mark | title=Anglicanism : a very short introduction | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=Oxford New York | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-19-280693-2 | oclc=170968642 }}</ref>
Chiu was born in 1918.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1985-86'', 89th Edition, p 92.</ref> He graduated with a [[Bachelor of Laws]] from the [[University of London]] in 1941 and after a period of study at [[Westcott House, Cambridge]] in 1943, was ordained deacon in 1945 and priest in 1946.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74'', 85th Edition, p 174.</ref> His first post was as [[Curate]] at [[St Francis of Assisi's Church, Bournville|St Francis, Bournville]]<ref>[http://www.bournvilleparishchurch.org.uk/ Church web-site]</ref><ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74'', 85th Edition, p 174.</ref> after which he was [[Priest in charge]] of St Hilda, [[Katong]].<ref>''[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]] 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> and then [[Vicar]] of [[Selangor]].
From 1959 to 1961, Chiu was Home Secretary of the [[Australian Board of Missions]] and from then, until his elevation to the [[episcopate]],<ref>[http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/sing/chiubait-1966a.pdf Consecration details] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719084007/http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/sing/chiubait-1966a.pdf |date=2011-07-19 }}</ref> held a similar post with the [[World Council of Churches]] as Secretary of Laymen.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_2016_12_02_029|title=''Church Times'': "Deaths", 2 December 2016, p 29|access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
== External links ==
*[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/image.aspx?id=bceb7570-0612-4d08-80a4-4629fb416b38 Portrait]
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