Bishop of Newcastle (Australia)

The Bishop of Newcastle is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle in the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese is centred in Newcastle, New South Wales. The current Bishop of Newcastle is Greg Thompson.

Bishops

Bishops of Newcastle (Australia)
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1847	1879	William Tyrrell
1880	1889	Josiah Brown Pearson
1890	1905	George Henry Stanton	Translated from North Queensland
1906	1919	John Francis Stretch	Previously Dean of Ballarat and Dean of Newcastle
1919	1928	Reginald Stephen	Translated from Tasmania
1928	1930	George Merrick Long	Translated from Bathurst
1931	1958	Francis de Witt Batty	Previously Dean of Brisbane
1958	1972	James Alan George Housden	Translated from Rockhampton
1973	1977	Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill	Translated from North Queensland
1978	1992	Alfred Charles Holland
1993	2005	Roger Herft	Translated from Waikato and Taranaki. Became Archbishop of Perth in 2005.
2005	2012	Brian Farran	Previously an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Perth
2013		Greg Thompson	Translated from Diocese of the Northern Territory

External links

• Anglican Diocese of Newcastle history