Ralph Peter Hatendi
DD AKC (9 April 192731 August 2018) was a Zimbabwean
bishop of Harare and Mashonaland from 1979 to his reluctant retirement in 1995. He later came out of retirement to serve as Interim Bishop of
Manicaland from 2008 until 2009, when his son-in-law was elected to the See. In 1964/65 he was the local Vicar in the UK Lincolnshire village of Tetford.
History
He was born on 9 April 1927 and educated at
St Peter's College, Rosettenville and
King's College London. He was
ordained
Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...
in 1958 and began his career as a
Curate in Bonda after which he was
Chaplain to the Bernard Mizeki Mission in
Marandellas
Marondera (known as Marandellas until 1982) is a city in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about 72 km east of Harare.
History
It was first known as Marandella's Kraal, corrupted from Marondera, chief of the ruling VaRozvi people who ...
and then a
Lecturer at St John's Seminary in
Lusaka.
[ Crockford's clerical directory London, Church House 1975 ]
References
1927 births
2018 deaths
Alumni of King's College London
Associates of King's College
Anglican bishops of Harare and Mashonaland
20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa
People educated at St Peter’s College, Rosettenville
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