George Cruickshank (bishop)

George Craig Cruikshank (born 1881) was the seventh Bishop of Waiapu^[1] from 1945 to 1946.

He was born in 1881^[2] and educated at Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1908^[3] and was a curate at St Hilda's Darlington^[4] and then vicar of Whangarei. During this time he was also a chaplain to the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force. From 1923 to 1932 he was vicar of Remuera. In 1932 he became Dean of Dunedin, a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate.

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Religious titles
Preceded by George Gerard	Bishop of Waiapu 1945–1946	Succeeded by Norman Lesser

Bishops of Waiapu

William Williams Edward Stuart Leonard Williams Alfred Averill William Sedgwick Herbert Williams George Gerard George Cruickshank Norman Lesser Paul Reeves Ralph Matthews Peter Atkins Murray Mills John Bluck David Rice Andrew Hedge

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