Michael Hare Duke

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Michael Geoffrey Hare Duke (28 November 1924 – 15 December 2014) was an Anglican bishop{{cite web|title=Bishop Michael Hare Duke RIP|url=http://www.scotland.anglican.org/bishop-michael-hare-duke-rip/|website=The Scottish Episcopal Church|accessdate=27 December 2014}}[http://www.holytrinitystirling.org/mcintyre19741994.htm Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church, Stirling: Rev. James Whitelaw McIntyre, B.D. (1974–93)] and author:Amongst others, he wrote "The Caring Church", 1963; "First Aid in Counselling", 1968; "Understanding the Adolescent", 1969; "The Break of Glory", 1970; "Freud", 1972; "Good News", 1976; "Stories, Signs and Sacraments in the Emerging Church", 1982; "Praying for Peace", 1991; "Hearing the Stranger", 1994; and "One Foot in Heaven", 2001> British Library website accessed 19:01 GMT 13 May 2011 a former Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Early life

Born 28 November 1924,Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-7136-8555-8}} he was educated at Bradfield College and Trinity College, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Rt. Rev. Michael Geoffrey Hare Duke| url=http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/mfwhoswho/individuals/H_mfwwi/michael_hare_duke.html|website=Frost's Scottish Who's Who|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163652/http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/mfwhoswho/individuals/H_mfwwi/michael_hare_duke.html |archivedate=14 July 2014|url-status=dead}}

He was a Sub-Lieutenant in the RNVR from 1944 to 1946.

Ordained ministry

Hare Duke was ordained deacon in 1952 and priest a year later.Crockford's clerical directory London, Church House 1975 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} He began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at St John's Wood{{cite web|title=Parish of St John's Wood: Copy curate's licence for Michael Geoffrey Hare Duke MA for the parish church of St Stephen, Portland Town (St John's Wood Chapel)|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/a82a992f-d531-4c3c-9ac6-c18c0120afe8|website=The National Archives|accessdate=27 December 2014}} after which he was Vicar of St John with St Mark, Bury.[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/691144 SD8012 : St John with St Mark Church, Sunny Avenue, Bury] (photo) He was Pastoral Director for the Clinical Theology Association after which he was Vicar of St Paul's, Daybrook.

He was elevated to the episcopate in 1969 Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000 Bertie, D. M: Edinburgh T & T Clark {{ISBN|0-567-08746-8}} as the 9th Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. He retired in 1994.

He was a member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis (TSSF), having made his profession in 1950.{{cite web|title=Deaths & Obituaries|url=http://tssf.org.uk/resources/publications/deaths-obituaries/|website=Third Order, Society of Saint Francis|accessdate=3 December 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208064239/http://tssf.org.uk/resources/publications/deaths-obituaries/|archivedate=8 December 2015}}

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Category:1924 births

Category:2014 deaths

Category:People educated at Bradfield College

Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford

Category:Bishops of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane

Category:20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops