Clive Handford

Handford was born on 17 April 1937. He studied at Hatfield College, Durham University, graduating with a 2:1 degree in Modern Arabic Studies.{{cite journal |title=Graduates |journal=University of Durham Gazette |publisher=Durham University|date=September 1961 |page=9}} He then underwent ministerial formation at Queen's College, Edgbaston.Crockford's clerical directory (London, Church House 1995) {{ISBN|0-7151-8088-6}}

Handford was made a deacon at Michaelmas in 1963 (22 September), by Morris Gelsthorpe, Assistant Bishop of Southwell,{{Church Times | title = Michaelmas Ordinations | archive = 1963_09_27_015 | issue = 5250 | date = 27 September 1963 | page = 15 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }} and ordained a priest at the Trinity Sunday following (24 May 1964), by Gordon Savage, Bishop of Southwell, both times at Southwell Minster;.{{Church Times | title = Ordinations at Trinity | archive = 1964_05_29_017 | issue = 5285 | date = 29 May 1964 | page = 17 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }} He then began his ministry as an assistant curate at St Peter and St Paul's Church, Mansfield in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham between 1963 and 1967.{{Crockford| surname = Handford | forenames = George Clive | id = 40204 | accessed = 23 October 2024}}

In 1967, Handford started what was to be a long association with the Middle East. He was a chaplain in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1967, followed by six years as a chaplain in Beirut, Lebanon.{{cite web |title=Handford, Rt Rev. (George) Clive, (born 17 April 1937), Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf, 1996–2007; President Bishop, Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, 2002–07; an Honorary Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Leeds (formerly West Yorkshire and the Dales), since 2014 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U12670 |website=Who's Who 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=23 October 2024 |language=en |date=1 December 2019}} He then served as Dean of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem from 1974 to 1978. Then, from 1978 to 1983, he was co-currently Archdeacon in the Gulf and chaplain in Abu Dhabi and Qatar.

Often embroiled in centuries old disputes, he clearly stated his own view in a letter to The Times in 1977:

{{blockquote|"I am neither pro-Arab nor pro-Jew, I am pro-human."The Times, 28 January 1977, p. 17, "Jerusalem eviction" G. CLIVE HANDFORD, St George's Close.}}

Returning to England, he became Vicar of Kneesall, Archdeacon of Nottingham. Then in 1990, he was elected Bishop suffragan of Warwick and consecrated a bishop on 6 December at Westminster Abbey.{{Church Times | title = Briefly | archive = 1990_12_07_002 | issue = 6669 | date = 7 December 1990 | page = 2 | accessed = 25 May 2019 }} He was then translated to the Mediterranean Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf where he served the Anglican Community until retirement in 2007. During much of that time, he served as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

In retirement, he still maintains his links with the church and serves as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds.Crockfords online

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