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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-3/
- Published: 2025-05-19T18:30:24.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-19T18:30:23.000Z
- Description: A post announcing Father Geoff’s death on the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch Facebook was met with an outpouring of sadness, with those that knew him remembering him as a “constant friend” and a “faithful servant”.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> An elderly priest who died by suicide had made payments of around $40,000 to people in Bolivia and America in the year leading up to his death.  
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> Geoffrey John Gray, known as Father Geoff, was found dead at home in Akaroa, Banks Peninsula on November 29 last year.  
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> A coroner’s inquiry into the circumstances of his death found that the deterioration of the 82-year-old’s mental health largely arose due to the “exploitation of his generous and trusting nature”.  
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