Jack Dain

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Arthur John "Jack" Dain OBE (13 October 1912–3 March 2003[1]) was an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.

Dain was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School,[2] after which he was a missionary in India until 1941 when he joined the Royal Indian Navy. He was the General Secretary of the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission until 1959 when he was ordained after studies at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.[3] He was the federal secretary of the Church Mission Society in Australia from then until 1965 when he became an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. From 1980 to 1982 he was diocese's Chief Executive Officer.

References

  1. ^ Billy Graham Center
  2. ^ "Who's Who 1992 "(London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 IBN 01018153674