title: Peter Hatendi
text: # Peter Hatendi
  
  Ralph Peter Hatendi DD AKC (9 April 1927–31 August 2018) was a Zimbabwean bishop of Harare and Mashonaland from 1979 to his reluctant retirement in 1995. He later came out of retirement to serve as Interim Bishop of Manicaland from 2008 until 2009, when his son-in-law was elected to the See. In 1964/65 he was the local Vicar in the UK Lincolnshire village of Tetford.
  
  ## History
  
  He was born on 9 April 1927 and educated at St Peter's College, Rosettenville and King's College London. He was ordained in 1958 and began his career as a Curate in Bonda after which he was Chaplain to the Bernard Mizeki Mission in Marandellas and then a Lecturer at St John's Seminary in Lusaka.
  
  