Cecil Allan Warren (25 February 1924 - 13 September 2019) was an Anglican bishop in Australia. Warren was educated at the

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(BA 1951) and

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(BA 1956, MA 1959), and

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deacon in 1950 and priest in 1951. His first post was a curacy at St John's,

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(1950-51) and then its Priest-in-Charge (1951-53). He was then a curate at St Mary the Virgin,

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(1955-57) and St John's, Canberra (1957-60). He was then the first

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of St Philip, O'Connor,

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(1960-63). From 1963 to 1965 he was Organising Secretary of the

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and Director of the Forward in Faith Movement (not to be confused with the later, and unrelated,

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). On 21 September 1965, he was consecrated an

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within the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn and on 15 November 1971 was elected its diocesan bishop. He was installed on 31 January 1972 and retired on 5 September 1983. He was then Team Rector of

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and an Assistant Bishop in the

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in the

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(1983-89).

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1924 births University of Sydney alumni Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn Anglican bishops of Canberra and Goulburn 2019 deaths {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub