Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHassan Dehqani-Tafti
Iranian bishop
Date of Birth: 14-May-1920
Place of Birth: Taft, Yazd Province, Iran
Date of Death: 29-Apr-2008
Profession: priest
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Hassan Dehqani-Tafti
- Hassan Barnaba Dehqani-Tafti (Hassan Barnaba Dehqani-Tafti; 14 May 1920 in Taft, Iran – 29 April 2008 in Winchester) was the Anglican Bishop of Iran from 1960 until his retirement in 1990.
- Dehqani-Tafti was the first ethnic Persian to become a bishop of Iran since the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.Dehqani-Tafti spent the last ten years of his episcopate in exile after the Iranian Revolution and an assassination attempt in October 1979, in which his wife, Margaret, was wounded.
- In May 1980, his 25-year-old son, Bahram, was murdered by Iranian government agents; Bahram is commemorated in the chapel at Monkton Combe School where he was a pupil from 1968 to 1973.
- His daughter Guli Francis-Dehqani was appointed the first Bishop of Loughborough in the Diocese of Leicester in 2017.
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