New Assistant Bishop
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Canon Henry Kendall, 62, at present in charge of the Anglican Mission station at Popondetta in northern Papua, has been appointed Assistant Anglican Bishop in Papua-New Guinea.
Canon Kendall takes the place of the Rt. Rev. John Chisholm, who recently be came Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, based in Honiara.
Canon Kendall will be based at the cathedral station of Dogura in the Milne Bay District of Papua and will administer the diocese in the absence of the Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, the Rt. Rev. David Hand.
Canon Kendall was born in Wiltshire, England, and educated at Cheltenham College, Oxford, and Wescott House theo logical college, Cambridge. After several years' work in England he joined the Bush Brotherhood in Northern Queensland and was sub-dean of Townsville cathedral for three years. He returned to England for five years before going to New Guinea in 1952. He is married and has two teenage sons.