Graham Richard Delbridge (22 May 1917 – 8 June 1980) was the sixth bishop of the
Diocese of Gippsland
The Diocese of Gippsland is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia, founded in 1902. It is situated in the Gippsland region of the state of Victoria, Australia and covers most of the eastern part of the state. The diocesan cathedral is ...
in Australia from 1974 to 1980.
Delbridge was born on 22 May 1917. He was educated at
Moore College
Moore Theological College, otherwise known simply as Moore College, is the theological training seminary of the Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia. The president of the Moore Theological College Council is ''ex officio'' t ...
.
He became Director of Youth Work in the
Anglican Diocese of Sydney
The Diocese of Sydney is a diocese in Sydney, within the Province of New South Wales of the Anglican Church of Australia. The majority of the diocese is evangelical and low church in tradition.
The diocese goes as far as Lithgow in the wes ...
and held
incumbencies at
Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide
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, and St Matthew's
Manly.
From 1963 he was an
archdeacon
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and
senior chaplain to the
Primate of Australia
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, and in 1969 he became a
coadjutor bishop
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in the Diocese of Sydney: he was consecrated a bishop on 8 April at
St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
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.
From 1973 he was a member of the Anglican-Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Commission, and he supported ecumenical endeavours in Australia.
On 8 June 1980 he and his 21-year-old daughter Judy were killed in a motoring accident near
Sale.
References
1917 births
Moore Theological College alumni
Anglican archdeacons in Australia
Anglican bishops of Gippsland
20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney
Road incident deaths in Victoria (Australia)
1980 deaths
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