Amos Waiaru Explained

Amos Stanley Waiaru OBE (19 April 1944 – 12 March 2011) was a Solomon Islands divine from Nafinuatog who served as the third Archbishop of the Province of Melanesia.[1]

Waiaru was educated at Bishop Patteson Theological Centre, Kohimarama, Guadalcanal, and Pacific Theological College[2] and ordained deacon in St Barnabas' Cathedral, Honiara, on 10 December 1972, and priest in St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Lolowai, on 4 May 1976.[3] His first post was as Chaplain at Vureas High School in Vanuatu. From 1981 to 1987 he was Bishop of Temotu in the Solomon Islands.[4] He was installed as Archbishop of Melanesia on 17 April 1988.[5]

References

  1. http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2009/3/6/ACNS4587 Anglican Communion
  2. [Who's Who]
  3. http://www.solomonencyclopaedia.net/biogs/E000737b.htm Amos Stanley Waiaru biographical entry at Solomon Islands Encyclopaedia
  4. [Crockford's clerical directory|Crockford’s]
  5. http://anglicanhistory.org/oceania/COM_archives.pdf List of small publications in the Archives of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (in the National Archives of Solomon Islands)