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Michael Nuttall

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{{Use South African English|date=October 2014}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = Michael Nuttal

| title = Former Bishop of Natal

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| church = Anglican

| province = Southern Africa

| archdiocese =

| diocese = Natal

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| term = 1982–1999

| predecessor = Philip Russell

| successor = Rubin Phillip

| ordination = 1965

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| consecration = 1975

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1934|4|3|df=yes}}

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| previous_post = Bishop of Pretoria

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Michael Nuttall (born 3 April 1934) is a former South African Anglican bishop[http://archbishopdenishurley.com/images/stories/nuttall_michael.pdf Interview with Bishop Michael] {{dead link|date=September 2013}} and author.

He was educated at Maritzburg College, the University of Natal and Rhodes University{{cite book|title=Who's Who 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkcFGQAACAAJ|year=2007|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-7136-8555-8}} and ordained in 1965.{{cite book|author=Oxford University Press|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory: A Reference Book of the Clergy of the Provinces of Canterbury and York and of Other Anglican Provinces and Dioceses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lg3CbwAACAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-200008-8}} His first post was as a curate at Grahamstown Cathedral where he was later to return as Dean. In 1975 he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Pretoria. After seven years he was translated to Natal. He was Bishop of Natal until 2000. He continues to serve the Church in retirement.

Publications

Nuttall has written and contributed to a number of works including:

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  • {{cite book|editor=René De Villiers|title=Better than they knew|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xciAAAAMAAJ |year=1972|publisher=Purnell|page=191|chapter=Religion|author = Michael Nuttall|isbn=9780360001626|display-authors=0}}
  • Authority in the Anglican Communion 1987
  • Prayerfulness in the Spirit 2002
  • {{cite book|editor=John Suggit & Mandy Goedhals|title=Change and challenge: essays commemorating the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Robert Gray as first bishop of Cape Town [20th February 1848)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=83ArAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Church of the Province of Southern Africa|isbn=978-0-9584213-2-4|page=55}}
  • {{cite book|author=Michael Nuttall|title=Number two to Tutu: a memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXgKAQAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Cluster|isbn=978-1-875053-34-6|display-authors=0}}
  • Nuttall, Michael. "Receiving Communion from the Hands of a Woman Priest: A Milestone in the Life of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa." Women Hold Up Half The Sky: Women in the Church in Southern Africa (1991): 267–273.
  • {{cite book|last=Nuttall|first=Michael|editor=Charles Hefling & Cynthia Shattuck|title=The Oxford Guide to The Book of Common Prayer : A Worldwide Survey: A Worldwide Survey|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezVH2h6PKUcC&pg=PA315|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-972389-8|chapter=The Province of Southern Africa |display-authors=0}}

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References

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{{S-bef|before=Kenneth Oram}}

{{S-ttl|title=Dean of Grahamstown|years=1975–1975}}

{{S-aft|after=Godfrey Ashby}}

{{S-bef|before=Edward Knapp-Fisher}}

{{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Pretoria|years=1975–1982}}

{{S-aft|after=Richard Austin Kraft}}

{{S-bef|before=Philip Russell}}

{{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Natal|years=1982–1999}}

{{S-aft|after=Rubin Phillip}}

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{{Deans of Grahamstown}}

{{Bishops of Pretoria}}

{{Bishops of Natal}}

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Category:1934 births

Category:20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops

Category:Alumni of Maritzburg College

Category:Anglican bishops of Natal

Category:Deans of Grahamstown

Category:Living people

Category:Rhodes University alumni

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