Allen Johnston

{{Short description|Archbishop of New Zealand}}

{{about|the Anglican bishop from New Zealand|other uses|Alan Johnston (disambiguation)}}

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Allen Howard Johnston {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CMG}}[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/47420/supplements/41/page.pdf London Gazette] (2 September 1912 – 22 February 2002) was an Anglican bishop.{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=940690 |title=Obituary: Allen Howard Johnston |date=23 February 2002 |work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=16 September 2011}}

Johnston was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated at Seddon Memorial Technical College and St John's College, Auckland“Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} before beginning his ordained ministry with a curacy at St Mark's Remuera.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–41 Oxford, OUP,1941 He then had incumbencies at Dargaville, Northern Wairoa and Ōtāhuhu. In 1949 he became Archdeacon of Waimate, and Vicar of Whangārei,Crockford's Clerical DirectoryCross Over Kauri: a Centennial History of the Parish of Whangarei, positions he held for four years before being appointed the Bishop of Dunedin. He was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1953.{{Cite web|url=https://kinderlibrary.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/34#idx11926|title = Proceedings of the General Synod: 33rd General Synod, 1955}} He was translated to be Bishop of Waikato in 1969 and was additionally elected Archbishop of New Zealand in 1972. He served as a member of the Royal Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Circumstances of the Convictions of Arthur Allan Thomas for the Murders of David Harvey Crewe and Jeanette Lenore Crewe.{{Cite web |url=http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/r.christie/thomas_royal_commission_1980.pdf |title=Report of the Royal Commission to Inquire into the Circumstances of the Convictions of Arthur Allan Thomas for the Murders of David Harvey Crewe and Jeanette Lenore Crewe |access-date=2013-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609174212/http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/r.christie/thomas_royal_commission_1980.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-09 |url-status=dead }}

In the 1978 New Year Honours, Johnston was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.{{London Gazette |issue=47420 |date=31 December 1977 |page=41 |supp=3}}