Gerard Addington D'Arcy-Irvine (17 June 1862 – 18 April 1932) was the

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. D'Arcy-Irving was born in Wandsworth into an ecclesiastical family and educated at

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Grammar School and Moore College. He was ordained in 1885 and began his ordained ministry as a

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at St Stephen's, Newtown,

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and St John's, Parramatta. He was then an incumbent at St Matthew's, Windsor, SS Simon and Jude's Bowral, St Michael's, Wollongong, Holy Trinity (Garrison) Church,

and St Michael's Vaucluse and Rose Bay. In 1908 he became

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and in 1917 vicar general of the Sydney diocese. He was elevated to the episcopate in 1926 and died on 18 April 1932.

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1862 births People from Wandsworth Moore Theological College alumni Anglican archdeacons in Australia 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney 1932 deaths {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub