\'He was a pillar of wisdom, humility and sacrifice to the legions of freedom fighters in the darkest moments of the struggle against apartheid.\'President Nelson Mandela, 1998drawing on the extensive private archive of Huddleston\'s correspondence, speeches and sermons, Robin Denniston examines the political and spiritual life of one of Britain\'s most controversial post-colonial heroes. from his curacy in a working-class parish in the thirties, his life-changing twelve years in the diocese of Johannesburg from 1943, his return to England as a celebrated author after the publication of Naught For Your Comfort in 1956, his years as bishop of Masasi in the newly independent Tanzania, to his decade as bishop of Stepney, he redefined for two generations what the Church of England was capable of being and achieving.