Ralph Matthews

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The Rt Rev Ralph Vernon Mathews (3 April 1928 - 4 March 1983) was the 11th Anglican Bishop of Waiapu^[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 ordained in 1956.^[3] He embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Hastings after which he was Vicar of Waipukurau then Taupo.^[4] From 1976 to 1979 he was Archdeacon of Waiapu before his elevation to the Episcopate as its Diocesan Bishop.

Notes

↑ Diocesan web-site
↑ Napier Cathedral web-site
↑ Crockfords,(London, Church House 1975) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
↑ “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

v t e Bishops of Waiapu

William Williams Edward Stuart Leonard Williams Alfred Averill William Sedgwick Herbert Williams George Gerard George Cruickshank Norman Lesser Paul Reeves Ralph Matthews Peter Atkins Murray Mills John Bluck David Rice

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Persondata
Name	Mathews, Ralph Vernon
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Date of birth	3 April 1928
Place of birth
Date of death	4 March 1983
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