Brian Robert Kyme (22 June 1935 – 16 April 2020)
was an Australian
Anglican
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bishop, National Director of the Australian Board of Missions, and author.
Kyme trained for the priesthood at
Ridley College, Melbourne and was
ordained in 1958. Later he studied at
Edith Cowan University. He served curacies in Malvern and Morwell. He was the
Incumbent at St Matthew's Church,
Ashburton from 1963 to 1969 and
Dean of
Geraldton from 1969 to 1974. He was then at
Claremont, Western Australia from 1974 and
Archdeacon
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of
Stirling, WA from 1977. In 1982 he became
Assistant Bishop
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Church of England
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of
Perth,
serving until 1999.
From 1993 to 2000 he served as National Director of the
Australian Board of Missions
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.
Kyme died on 16 April 2020 from cancer.
Bibliography
Bishop Kyme wrote a number of books on history of Anglican church organisations and schools.
* ''Do this in remembrance of me!: a communion handbook for the reflective Christian'', 1985 with Brian Haig
* ''Grit & grace: the story of the Anglican Board of Mission - Australia'', 2013, with Jan Carroll
* ''John Septimus Roe: the man and the school named in his honour,'' 2010
* ''Six archbishops and their ordinands: a study of the leadership provided by successive Archbishops of Perth in their recruitment and formation of clergy in Western Australia, 1914-2005''
hesis 2005
* ''The Wollaston legacy'', 2007, with Edward Doncaster and Jan Carroll
References
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1935 births
2020 deaths
Edith Cowan University alumni
Alumni of Ridley College, Melbourne
20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
Deans of Geraldton
Archdeacons of Stirling, WA
Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Perth