VICAR OF CAMBRIDGE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3157, 7 November 1929, Page 4

VICAR OF CAMBRIDGE

REV. G. GORDON BRED. Rev. G. Gordon Bell, whose appointment as Vicar of Cambridge, to succeed Rev. Lionel Harvie, is annoimced, is an Englishman. He was educated at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, securing his B.A. degree in 1919, and M.A. in 1920. He was ordained a deacon of the. parish of Christchurch, Stafford, in 1914 by the Bishop of Lichfield, and ordained priest thq following year. In the year 1920, at the invitation of Archbishop Averill, who at the time was visiting the Lambeth Conference, Rev. Bell came to New Zealand, and was appointed Vicar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland, a position he has filled until the present time. Rev. Bell is president of the Auckland Clergy Association, a member of the Melanesian Mission Finance Board, the Orphans’ Home Board, the Clergy Pensions Board, the committee of the Order of the Good Shepherd, Diocesan Missionary Committee, Sunday Schools Board, a member of the executive of the Council of the Christian Churches, and a past president of the New Zealand Anglican Bible Class Union.