Benjamen "Ben" Wright (15 March 1942 – 22 January 2010) was an Australian

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bishop who was the Bishop of Bendigo from 1992 to 1993. Wright was educated at Slade School, Warwick, Queensland and

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, Perth. He was ordained in 1965. After a curacy at Applecross he held incumbencies at Narembeen,

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and Scarborough. He was

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of Stirling, then of the Goldfields and finally of

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Wright, Rt Rev. Benjamen, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 28 May 2012
/ref> before his ordination to the episcopate.

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1942 births Murdoch University alumni 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia Anglican bishops of Bendigo Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Perth 2010 deaths Archdeacons of Stirling, WA {{Australia-Anglican-bishop-stub