Francis Hollis

Francis Septimus Hollis (10 November 1884 – 4 February 1955) was a British clergyman in the Anglican Church.

He became a Fellow of the Surveyors' Institution in 1908, and entered Dorchester Missionary College, Oxfordshire in 1910.

Hollis first went to Sarawak, Borneo in 1916, serving as Assistant Priest at the St. Thomas' Cathedral at Kuching from 1916–1923, and then as Priest in Charge of the Land Dayak mission of St James, Quop and Tai, from 1923–1928.

[3] They were ordained into bishop's orders at St Mary-at-Lambeth on 7 June 1938, by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.

[5][6] After the devastation of World War II, the diocese of Labuan and the bishopric of Sarawak were joined into the diocese of Borneo; Nigel Cornwall was consecrated the first bishop of Borneo on 1 November 1949.