From The London Telegraph-
During the 1950s and 1960s he was no more than an effective and popular bishop’s chaplain, cathedral canon and Cumbrian archdeacon.
Shortly after he became Bishop of Pontefract, however, this respectable High Churchman was caught up in the fast-developing Charismatic movement, and this changed everything.
Father Bernard Chamberlain of the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield had urged him to take notice of the emerging new element in the Church. This Hare did, and — to his own great surprise and that of the Bishop of Wakefield and his other colleagues and friends — soon became the first episcopal participant in the renewal.
His personality altered, and he became an overflowing extrovert whose enthusiasm knew no bounds. Hallelujah was often on his lips and he spoke of “a release of joy and praise within me that I would not have thought possible”.
Such “revelling in the joy of the Lord” was too much for the traditionalists, however, which probably explains why he never moved to a diocesan bishopric.
More here-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/8000585/The-Right-Reverend-Richard-Hare.html
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