Richard Kraft Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Richard Austin Kraft (3 June 1936 – 17 January 2001) was a South African Anglican Bishop who was born in the United States.

He was born in the United States and received his education at Ripon College in Wisconsin and General Theological Seminary in New York, where he was ordained in 1961. He went to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and his first job was as an Assistant Priest at St Alphege Church. He was the Rector of St Chad’s Mission at Klip River from 1963 until 1967. Bishop Alpheus Zulu invited him to be the Director of Christian Education in the Diocese of Zululand in 1968. From 1974 to 1976, he served as Rector of All Saints Parish in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal. As Director of Christian Education, he was in charge of carrying on Don Griswold’s pioneering programme of experience-based education (also known as group dynamics, sensitivity training, or T-groups). Inspired by Roland Allen’s ideas, he also pioneered the training of self-supporting clergy at the diocesan conference facility KwaNzimela, near Melmoth. In 1976, he was named Director of the Church of the Province of South Africa’s Education Department, and subsequently Dean of Pretoria. He was appointed Bishop of Pretoria in 1982, a position he maintained until 1998. He was a vocal opponent of South Africa’s apartheid government. He died in Pretoria on January 17, 2001.

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