Bruce Gilberd
{{Short description|New Zealand Anglican bishop (1938–2023)}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Bruce Gilberd
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| religion = Anglicanism
| title = Bishop of Auckland
| predecessor = Paul Reeves
| successor = John Paterson
| term_start = 1985
| term_end = 1994
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| consecration = 7 December 1985
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| birth_name = Bruce Carlyle Gilberd
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|04|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Whangārei, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|12|19|1938|04|22|df=y}}
| death_place = Tairua, New Zealand
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Bruce Carlyle Gilberd {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CNZM|size=85%}} (22 April 1938 – 19 December 2023) was a New Zealand Anglican bishop. He was the 8th Bishop of Auckland, from 1985 to 1994.
Biography
Gilberd was born in Whangārei on 22 April 1938.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19380426.2.2.2 |title=Births |date=26 April 1938 |work=The New Zealand Herald |volume=75 |issue=23021 |page=1 |access-date=23 December 2023 |via=PapersPast}} He was educated at King's College, Auckland, and the University of Auckland.Who’s Who 2008. London, A & C Black, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} His qualifications are BSc (Auckland), LTh, LTh (Hons), STh (St John).
Gilberd began his ordained ministry as a curate at Devonport. As vicar of Avondale from 1968 to 1971, he gained further experience through secondment to Egglescliffe on Teesside in the United Kingdom as an industrial chaplain. On his return, he became director of the Interchurch Trade and Industrial Mission (ITIM) in Wellington. From 1980 to 1985, he was a lecturer at St John's College, Auckland, before being ordained as a bishop on 7 December 1985.[http://anglican.org.nz/content/download/50400/254201/file/2019%20Lectionary%20.pdf ACANZP Lectionary, 2019] (p. 146){{Cite book|url=https://anglicat.kinderlibrary.ac.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=369181|title=The form and order of service for the consecration of the Reverend Bruce Carlyle Gilberd to be bishop in the church of God and Bishop of Auckland: In the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Auckland, on the Feast of St Ambrose, Saturday, December 7th, 1985 at 10 am|year=1985}} A keen fisherman and sailor,[http://www.holy-trinity.org.nz/165.php Diocesan details] Gilberd retired in 1994.{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/east-bays-courier/3402936/Bishop-looks-back-as-retirement-nears |title=Bishop looks back as retirement nears |first=Sarah |last=Moyes |date=5 March 2010 |work=Stuff |access-date=23 December 2023}}
In retirement, Gilberd lived at Tairua, and campaigned against the construction of a new marina there.{{cite web |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3500422 |title=Retired Anglican Bishop leads fight against Coromandel marina |work=nzherald.co.nz |year=2011 |quote=Retired Anglican Bishop of Auckland Bruce Gilberd is leading a fight against plans for a 150-berth marina at Tairua Harbour on Coromandel Peninsula. |accessdate=14 August 2011}} In the 2002 New Year Honours, Gilberd was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the community.{{cite web | url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2002 | title=New Year honours list 2002 |date=31 December 2001 | publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | accessdate=3 August 2019}}
Gilberd died at his home in Tairua on 19 December 2023, at the age of 85.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/bruce-gilberd-obituary?id=53906154 |title=Bruce Gilberd obituary |date=23 December 2023 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=23 December 2023}}
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Category:People from Whangārei
Category:People educated at King's College, Auckland
Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:Anglican bishops of Auckland
Category:Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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