Ralph Matthews

The Rt Rev Ralph Vernon Matthews (3 April 1928 – 4 March 1983) was the 11th Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand,[1] whose brief Episcopate spanned a four-year period during the third quarter of the 20th century.[2]

He was educated at Napier Boys' High School and the University of Auckland, and was ordained in 1956.[3] He embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Hastings, New Zealand, after which he was Vicar of Waipukurau, then Taupo.[4] From 1976 to 1979 he was Archdeacon of Waiapu, before his consecration to the Episcopate as its Diocesan Bishop, which See he held until his untimely death.[5]

References
  1. Diocesan website.
  2. Napier Cathedral website.
  3. Crockfords (London: Church House, 1975), ISBN 0-7151-8088-6.
  4. “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X.
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Paul Reeves		 Bishop of Waiapu
1979–1983		 Succeeded by
Peter Geoffrey Atkins


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