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
Originally in the Dioceses of No ...
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
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in
Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
and
South Ormsby
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he was
Vicar
A vicar (; Latin: ''vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pref ...
of
Great Grimsby from 1973 to 1979;
Team Rector
A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations. In contrast, a vicar is also a cleric but functions as an assistant and representative of an administrative leader.
A ...
of
Halesworth from 1979 to 1985;
Dean of
Bocking from 1985 to 1994; and
Rural Dean
In the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective. ...
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
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