Grand Chief the Most Reverend Geoffrey David Hand KBE GCL (11 May 1918- 6 April 2006) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Papua New Guinea.
Archbishop Hand was born in 1918 at Clermont, Queensland, Australia, where his English father, the Reverend William Thomas Hand, was the Rector of Clermont. He had two older brothers, Peter and Eustace, both of whom also became priests. When he was four, the family returned to England, his father taking up a...
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Grand Chief the Most Reverend Geoffrey David Hand KBE GCL (11 May 1918- 6 April 2006) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Papua New Guinea.
Archbishop Hand was born in 1918 at Clermont, Queensland, Australia, where his English father, the Reverend William Thomas Hand, was the Rector of Clermont. He had two older brothers, Peter and Eustace, both of whom also became priests. When he was four, the family returned to England, his father taking up a country parish in Tatterford, Norfolk; David Hand grew up there and was educated at Gresham's School, Holt (where he was an organ scholar) from 1932 to 1937, and then at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1941, when he took a degree in history before training for the ministry at Ripon Theological College, Cuddesdon (1941-1942).
Ordained a deacon in 1942, Hand became a curate at Heckmondwike in Yorkshire in the north of England and was ordained a priest in 1943. He stayed at Heckmondwike until 1946, when he was inspired to go out to Papua New...
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