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Ralph Vernon Matthews (3 April 1928 – 4 March 1983) was the 11th

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Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, whose brief Episcopate spanned a four-year period during the third quarter of the 20th century. He was educated at

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and the University of Auckland, and was ordained in 1956. He embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Hastings, New Zealand, after which he was Vicar of Waipukurau, then Taupō. From 1976 to 1979 he was

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of Waiapu, before his consecration to the Episcopate as its Diocesan Bishop, which See he held until his untimely death.

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1928 births People educated at Napier Boys' High School University of Auckland alumni Anglican archdeacons in New Zealand Anglican bishops of Waiapu 20th-century Anglican bishops in New Zealand 1983 deaths {{Anglican-bishop-stub