George Nickells Bishop (1852–1939) was an
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
priest in the first two decades of the nineteenth century and the first four of the twentieth.
[ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1938 p 112: London, OUP, 1938]
Bishop was born in
Newton Abbot and later emigrated to Australia. He was
ordained deacon in 1880, and priest in 1881. After a
curacy at
Geelong
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...
he held
incumbencies in
Melbourne and
Kyneton, where he was also
Archdeacon
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from 1915 to 1918. His last post was as Chaplain at
Melbourne Hospital
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.
References
1852 births
1939 deaths
19th-century Australian Anglican priests
20th-century Australian Anglican priests
Archdeacons of Kyneton
People from Newton Abbot
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