David Hand (bishop)

The Most Reverend David Hand
Primate of Papua New Guinea, Bishop of Port Moresby
Church	Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea
See	Port Moresby
In office	1977–1983
Orders
Ordination	1943
Consecration	1950
Personal details
Born	11 May 1918 Clermont, Queensland, Australia
Died	6 April 2006 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Previous post	Bishop of Papua New Guinea

Geoffrey David Hand KBE GCL (11 May 1918 – 6 April 2006) was an Australian-born Papua New Guinean Anglican bishop. He was the first Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea.

Hand was born in 1918 in Clermont, Queensland, Australia, where his English father, the Reverend William Thomas Hand, was the rector of Clermont. He had two older brothers, Peter and Eustace, both of whom also became priests. When he was four, the family returned to England with his father taking up a country parish in Tatterford, Norfolk. Hand grew up there and was educated at Gresham's School, Holt (where he was an organ scholar) from 1932 to 1937) and then at Oriel College, Oxford University, from 1938 to 1941, when he received a degree in history before training for ordination at Cuddesdon Theological College,(1941–1942). He never married, remaining a celibate Anglo-Catholic missionary in the tradition of the Oxford Movement, like Trevor Huddleston.

Ordained a deacon in 1942, Hand became a curate at Heckmondwike in Yorkshire in the north of England and was ordained a priest in 1943. He stayed at Heckmondwike until 1946, when he decided to move to Papua New Guinea, inspired by the life and death of the Reverend Vivian Redlich, a missionary killed there during World War II.

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