Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Michael Hare Duke | |
Honorific Suffix: | TSSF |
Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane | |
Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
Diocese: | St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane |
Appointed: | --> |
Term: | 1969–1994 |
Retired: | --> |
Predecessor: | John Howe |
Successor: | Michael Henley |
Ordination: | 1953 |
Consecration: | 1969 |
Birth Date: | 28 November 1924 |
Birth Place: | Calcutta, India |
Death Place: | Perth, Scotland |
Spouse: | Grace Lydia Frances Dodd |
Children: | 4 |
Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Oxford |
Michael Geoffrey Hare Duke (28 November 1924 – 15 December 2014) was an Anglican bishop[1] [2] and author:[3] a former Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
Born 28 November 1924,[4] he was educated at Bradfield College and Trinity College, Oxford.[5]
He was a Sub-Lieutenant in the RNVR from 1944 to 1946.
Hare Duke was ordained deacon in 1952 and priest a year later.[6] He began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at St John's Wood[7] after which he was Vicar of St John with St Mark, Bury.[8] He was Pastoral Director for the Clinical Theology Association after which he was Vicar of St Paul's, Daybrook.
He was elevated to the episcopate in 1969 [9] as the 9th Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. He retired in 1994.
He was a member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis (TSSF), having made his profession in 1950.[10]