Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Right Reverend John Robert Kuru Gray (1947 – 13 November 2015) was a New Zealand Anglican bishop.Born in 1947 of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, Gray was raised at Tokomaru Bay. After studying nursing in Invercargill, he moved to Christchurch where he became active in the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in the suburb of Phillipstown. He was elected to the vestry and served as a churchwarden and, for five years, as a lay reader, before being ordained as a deacon in 1982.Ordained to the priesthood in 1983, Gray was named bishop of Te Waipounamu, New Zealand, in 1996, becoming the first Māori Anglican bishop for South Island.Gray died on 13 November 2015, and his body was returned to Tokomaru Bay for his tangihanga at Kiekie Marae."@en }
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- John_Gray_(New_Zealand_bishop) abstract "The Right Reverend John Robert Kuru Gray (1947 – 13 November 2015) was a New Zealand Anglican bishop.Born in 1947 of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, Gray was raised at Tokomaru Bay. After studying nursing in Invercargill, he moved to Christchurch where he became active in the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in the suburb of Phillipstown. He was elected to the vestry and served as a churchwarden and, for five years, as a lay reader, before being ordained as a deacon in 1982.Ordained to the priesthood in 1983, Gray was named bishop of Te Waipounamu, New Zealand, in 1996, becoming the first Māori Anglican bishop for South Island.Gray died on 13 November 2015, and his body was returned to Tokomaru Bay for his tangihanga at Kiekie Marae.".
- Q21997800 abstract "The Right Reverend John Robert Kuru Gray (1947 – 13 November 2015) was a New Zealand Anglican bishop.Born in 1947 of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, Gray was raised at Tokomaru Bay. After studying nursing in Invercargill, he moved to Christchurch where he became active in the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in the suburb of Phillipstown. He was elected to the vestry and served as a churchwarden and, for five years, as a lay reader, before being ordained as a deacon in 1982.Ordained to the priesthood in 1983, Gray was named bishop of Te Waipounamu, New Zealand, in 1996, becoming the first Māori Anglican bishop for South Island.Gray died on 13 November 2015, and his body was returned to Tokomaru Bay for his tangihanga at Kiekie Marae.".