Clive Handford

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The Most Reverend

Clive Handford

CMG
President Bishop
Church Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
In officeApril 2002 –2007 (retired)
Predecessor Iraj Mottahedeh, Bishop in Iran
Successor Mouneer Anis, Bishop of Egypt
Other post(s) Archdeacon of Nottingham (1984–1990)
Bishop of Warwick (1990–1996)
Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf (1997-2007)
Orders
Ordinationc. 1962 (deacon)
c. 1964 (priest)
Consecration1990
Personal details
Born (1937-04-17) 17 April 1937 (age 86)
Denomination Anglican
ParentsCyril & Alice
SpouseAnne Atherley (m. 1962)
Children1 daughter
OccupationAnglican bishop
Alma mater Hatfield College, Durham

George Clive Handford CMG [1] (born 17 April 1937) is an English Anglican bishop. He was the fourth Anglican Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf. [2]

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Early life

Handford was born on 17 April 1937. He studied at Hatfield College, Durham University, graduating with a 2:1 degree in Modern Arabic Studies. [3] He then underwent ministerial formation at Queen's College, Edgbaston. [4]

Religious life

Handford was made a deacon at Michaelmas in 1963 (22 September), by Morris Gelsthorpe, Assistant Bishop of Southwell, [5] and ordained a priest at the Trinity Sunday following (24 May 1964), by Gordon Savage, Bishop of Southwell, both times at Southwell Minster;. [6] He then began his ministry as a curate in Mansfield. He then started what was to be a long association with the Middle East by becoming a chaplain in Lebanon before Dean of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem.

Often embroiled in centuries old disputes, he clearly stated his own view in a letter to The Times in 1977:

"I am neither pro-Arab nor pro-Jew, I am pro-human." [7]

Returning to England, he became Vicar of Kneesall, Archdeacon of Nottingham. [2] Then in 1990, he was elected Bishop suffragan of Warwick and consecrated a bishop on 6 December at Westminster Abbey. [8] He was then translated to the Mediterranean Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf where he served the Anglican Community until retirement in 2007. During much of that time, he served as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

In retirement, he still maintains his links with the church and serves as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ 2007 Queen’s birthday honours Departmental lists (Diplomatic Service and overseas) Order of St Michael and St George
  2. 1 2 ‘HANDFORD, Rt Rev. (George) Clive’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 , accessed 30 June 2012
  3. ↑ "Graduates". University of Durham Gazette: 9. September 1961.
  4. ↑ Crockford's clerical directory (London, Church House 1995) ISBN   0-7151-8088-6
  5. ↑ "Michaelmas Ordinations" . Church Times . No. 5250. 27 September 1963. p. 15. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 25 May 2019– via UK Press Online archives.
  6. ↑ "Ordinations at Trinity" . Church Times . No. 5285. 29 May 1964. p. 17. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 25 May 2019– via UK Press Online archives.
  7. ↑ The Times, 28 January 1977, p. 17, "Jerusalem eviction" G. CLIVE HANDFORD, St George's Close.
  8. ↑ "Briefly" . Church Times . No. 6669. 7 December 1990. p. 2. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 25 May 2019– via UK Press Online archives.
  9. ↑ Crockfords online
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Warwick
1990–1996		Succeeded by
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf
1997–2007		Succeeded by
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