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Jone, Leonard
Full NameJONES, Rev Leonard, M.A., B.D. (Hons Melb)
Date of Birth26 July 1915Date of Death18 April 2000Biography
Educated at Southland Boys’ High School, University of Otago and Victoria University.
Completed his Bachelor of Divinity with Honours from the Melbourne College of Divinity.
Fifteen years of supply ministry in various parishes in Australia within the Uniting Church of Australia and then back in New Zealand.
Retired to Amberley Beach, Canterbury.
“Leonard had always a strong commitment to education and he served on the Board of Governors of the John McGlashan College, Rangi Ruru and Solway Colleges, and was Chairman of the Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Board of Governors from 1968 to 1973. He also had a strong commitment to the ecumenical movement dating back to his involvement in the Student Christian Movement during his university years. In Christchurch he chaired the Christchurch Council of Churches. Those who served with Leonard will remember him as a ‘team’ person. He worked in Masterton with a Deaconess and an Assistant Minister, and while in Christchurch he was part of a team ministry with the Rev Kenape Felotoese and worked with Vivienne Sinclair and Isobel Probert as his Deaconesses.” (from Memorial Minute)
Date of Birth26 July 1915Date of Death18 April 2000Biography- born 26 July 1915 Invercargill
- son of Hugh Thomas JONES and Maude Elizabeth REED
- married 11 April 1944 Louisa Joy NEALE, born 28 March 1925, died 2005 at a church service in Amberley
- died 18 April 2000
Educated at Southland Boys’ High School, University of Otago and Victoria University.
- Home Missionary, Plimmerton (supply) Wellington, 24 October 1937, to support himself while attending University — Resigned 1 March 1940 to further his studies.
- Ordained locum tenens, Mosgiel, Dunedin, 16 December 1943
- Riverton, Southland, 15 March 1945
- Roslyn, Dunedin, 1 July 1948
- Knox, Masterton, Wairarapa, 21 March 1956
- St Pauls, Christchurch (combined with Trinity Congregational Church to form St Pauls-Trinity-Pacific during his ministry), 21 May 1964
Completed his Bachelor of Divinity with Honours from the Melbourne College of Divinity.
Fifteen years of supply ministry in various parishes in Australia within the Uniting Church of Australia and then back in New Zealand.
Retired to Amberley Beach, Canterbury.
“Leonard had always a strong commitment to education and he served on the Board of Governors of the John McGlashan College, Rangi Ruru and Solway Colleges, and was Chairman of the Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Board of Governors from 1968 to 1973. He also had a strong commitment to the ecumenical movement dating back to his involvement in the Student Christian Movement during his university years. In Christchurch he chaired the Christchurch Council of Churches. Those who served with Leonard will remember him as a ‘team’ person. He worked in Masterton with a Deaconess and an Assistant Minister, and while in Christchurch he was part of a team ministry with the Rev Kenape Felotoese and worked with Vivienne Sinclair and Isobel Probert as his Deaconesses.” (from Memorial Minute)
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