Oliver Allison

1974 Retired. When back in England he did a lot of work to help through the Sudan Church Association.

1972 Peace talks culminated in the Addis Ababa Agreement in which the South was promised autonomy from the North. A few missionaries were allowed to return.

1955 Consecration of first Sudanese Assistant Bishop.

1953 Became Diocesan Bishop on Gelsthorpe's retirement. His pastoral duties extended to oversight of Churches in Yemen, Aden, Eritrea, Ethiopia & Samaliland.

1948 Consecrated Bishop, to be the assistant Bishop to Rt Rev Morris Gelsthorpe who was the first Bishop of the new diocese of Sudan, no longer linked with Egypt, but still under the Archbishopric of Jerusalem.

1938 Accepted by Church Missionary Society (CMS) and left for Anglo Egyptian Sudan. He began what was to be along association with the Sudan by becoming a Missionary in Juba followed by a stint as Assistant Bishop of the diocese. Elevated to the Episcopate

Educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and Queens' College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1933 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Boscombe.

1932-36 Curate at Christ Church Fulwood (Sheffield) Also Scout Master of the 142nd Sheffield (Fulwood) Scout Troop for same dates.

Oliver Claude Allison CBE (28 May 1908 – 7 June 1989) was a Christian missionary and the Bishop of the Sudan for over 20 years in the second part of the 20th century.