Gerard Francis Loft

Gerard Francis Loft S. M. ( Born April 6, 1933, Wellington, New Zealand, † February 4, 2007 in Beach Haven, Auckland, New Zealand) was Bishop of Auki Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands.

Life

Gerard Francis Loft joined the Congregation of the Marist Fathers. He put his profession in 1954, and received there on 20 July 1958, the ordination. In 1959, he came as pastor to the Solomon Islands.

In 1983 he was appointed by John Paul II, the first bishop of the newly established Diocese of Auki and Malaita. He received his episcopal consecration on 11 March 1984, the Archbishop of Honiara, Solomon Islands, Daniel Willem Stuyvenberg; Co-consecrators were Kurongku Peter, Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and Eusebius John Crawford, Bishop of Gizo, Solomon Islands.

2004 his resignation to Pope John Paul II was upheld.