Kenneth Oram

On his return to England in 1987 Oram became Assistant Bishop of Lichfield, 1987–1997. He died in Worthing, West Sussex, on 7 January 2001.

In 1964 Oram transferred to Grahamstown as Dean of St. Michael and St. George Cathedral. In 1974 he was elected Bishop of Grahamstown.

In 1960 he was appointed Dean of Kimberley at St Cyprian's Cathedral, where he was installed on 21 February 1960. This was exactly a month prior to the Sharpeville massacre, one of the turning points in the history of apartheid oppression under which Oram's South African ministry was exercised. "We shall offer penitence for our failure to be a Christian nation", read a prayer chain in May 1960, part of the Union Jubilee Festival.

After the war Oram responded to an appeal by the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to serve abroad, and thus began his ministry in South Africa. He went out to the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman – which covered a vast area including, at that time, the southern half of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Under Bishop John Hunter he was appointed initially as Rector of St Luke's Church, Prieska, and Director of Prieska Mission District (1949–51), and subsequently as Rector of Mafeking (St John's), 1952–59. He served as Archdeacon of Bechuanaland from 1953 to 1959.

Oram was educated at Selhurst Grammar School and King's College London where he studied English and became an Associate of King's College. He was ordained deacon in 1942, he preached his maiden sermon at Cranbrook on 6 June 1942. Oram was ordained priest, in the Diocese of Canterbury, in 1943. In the same year he married Kathleen Malcolm.

Kenneth Cyril Oram AKC (3 March 1919 – 7 January 2001) was an Anglican clergyman who served as Dean of Kimberley and of Grahamstown before his elevation to the episcopacy as Bishop of Grahamstown, 1974 to 1987.