Geoffrey William Arrand (born 24 July 1944) was
archdeacon of Suffolk
The Archdeacon of Suffolk is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in the territory of the archdeaconry.
History
The archdeaconry of Sudbury s ...
from 1994 to 2009.
Arrand was educated at
King's College London
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and
ordained
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in 1968. After
curacies in
Washington
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and
South Ormsby
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he was
Vicar
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of
Great Grimsby from 1973 to 1979;
Team Rector
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Anc ...
of
Halesworth
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from 1979 to 1985;
Dean of
Bocking from 1985 to 1994; and
Rural Dean
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of
Hadleigh from 1986 to 1994.
[‘ARRAND, Ven. Geoffrey William’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201]
accessed 14 Jan 2017
References
1944 births
Living people
Alumni of King's College London
Archdeacons of Suffolk
Deans of Bocking
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