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Adding short description: "Canadian Baptist missionary (1882–1967)" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{Short description|Canadian Baptist missionary (1882–1967)}}
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{{Infobox clergy
| honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]]
| name = Archibald Gordon
| honorific_suffix =
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| birth_name = Archibald Gordon
| birth_date = 1882<ref name="Archives">[http://www.albertaonrecord.ca/gordon-archibald Archives Society of Alberta]</ref>
| birth_place = [[Aberdeen]],<ref name="Archives"/> [[Scotland]]
| death_date = 1967<ref name="Archives"/>
| death_place = ([[Canada]])
| death_cause =
| nationality = [[Canadians|Canadian]]
| other_names =
| citizenship = [[Canadians|Canadian]]
| education = [[B.A.]], [[B.Th.]], [[Bachelor of Divinity|B.D.]]<ref name="Archives"/>
| alma_mater =[[Brandon University]], [[Brandon, Manitoba|Brandon]], [[Toronto University]], [[Toronto]]<ref name="Archives"/>
| occupation = [[Ecclesiastical]] Administrator and [[Pastor]]
| years_active = 1913<ref name="Plow"/>-1953 in [[India]]
| religion = [[Christianity]]
| parents =
| church = [[Canadian Baptist Ministries]]
| ordained =
| writings = 1969,<ref>Published posthumously.</ref> ''The opal sky of India: An autobiography''<ref>Archibald Gordon, ''The opal sky of India: An autobiography'', Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board, Toronto, 1969.[http://www.worldcat.org/title/opal-sky-of-india-an-autobiography/oclc/197508&referer=brief_results]</ref>
| congregations = First Baptist Church [[Calgary]] ([[Canada]])<ref name="Archives"/>
| offices_held = [[Dean (Christianity)|Principal]], [[Baptist Theological Seminary]], [[Kakinada]] ([[India]]), {{small|(1945-1952)<ref name="Souvenir">C. L. Johnson (Edited), ''Canadian Baptist Mission 125 years Jubilee Celebrations of Baptist Churches in Northern Circars'', Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada, 1999, p.217-219.[http://www.worldcat.org/title/canadian-baptist-mission-125-years-jubilee-celebration-1874-1999-souvenir/oclc/433990749]</ref>}}
| title = [[The Reverend]]
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'''Archibald Gordon''' (born 1882; died 1967) was a Canadian [[Baptist]] missionary who served in [[India]] during 1913<ref name="Plow">W. G. Carder, ''Hand to the Indian Plow: Volume One'', Carder, Hyderabad, 1976, Appendix II, p.11. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7AcxNAEACAAJ&dq=hand+to+the+indian+plough+carder&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMIyNHv8vuJyQIVxSiUCh0HBAMy]</ref>-1953 with [[Canadian Baptist Ministries]].<ref>Jarold Knox Zeman, ''Costly vision: the Baptist pilgrimage in Canada'',
Welch Publishing Company, Ontario, 1988, p.156. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UHXkAAAAMAAJ&q=Archie+gordon+baptist&dq=Archie+gordon+baptist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPrOyHw7HLAhUFA44KHWpkCz8Q6AEIGzAA]</ref>

==Early life and studies==
Archibald Gordon was born in [[Aberdeen]], [[Scotland]], in 1882 and went to [[Canada]] in 1907.<ref name="Archives"/> He enrolled for graduate studies at the [[Brandon University]], [[Brandon, Manitoba|Brandon]] where he took a [[B.A.]] and a [[B.Th.]] in 1913.<ref name="Archives"/> He later upgraded his academics by studying for a [[Bachelor of Divinity|B.D.]] degree at the [[University of Toronto]] in 1947.<ref name="Archives"/>

==Ecclesiastical career==
Gordon served as a [[Baptist]] missionary in [[India]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]] from 1913 to 1953. During the last decade of his presence in India, he became principal<ref name="Archives"/> of the [[Baptist Theological Seminary]], [[Kakinada]] during the period 1945-1952 following which the seminary council of the Baptist Theological Seminary appointed [[Chetti Bhanumurthy]] as the first Indian principal of the seminary.

==Honours==
In 1956, the [[McMaster University]] honoured Gordon with a [[Doctor of Divinity]] ([[honoris causa]]).<ref name="Archives"/>

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{{s-bef | before = [[Gordon Payzant Barss|Gordon P. Barss]]<br>1939-1945}}
{{s-ttl | title = [[Dean (Christianity)|Principal]], <br />[[Baptist Theological Seminary]],<br /> [[Kakinada]] ([[India]])| years = 1945-1952<ref name="Souvenir"/>}}
{{s-aft | after = [[Chetty Bhanumurthy]]<br />1952-1955}}
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[[Category:Canadian Baptist ministers]]
[[Category:Baptist writers]]
[[Category:Brandon University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Toronto alumni]]
[[Category:Telugu people]]
[[Category:Christian clergy from Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian Christian theologians]]
[[Category:Indian Baptists]]
[[Category:Canadian Baptist Ministries missionaries in India]]
[[Category:Senate of Serampore College (University) faculty]]
[[Category:Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars pastors]]
[[Category:1882 births]]
[[Category:1967 deaths]]

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