John Robert Reid (15 July 19282 January 2016) was an Australian Anglican bishop who served as an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney: he was the Bishop of South Sydney (the Southern Region) from 1972 to 1993. Reid was educated at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

and

Moore Theological 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 was ordained in 1955 by

Howard Mowll Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (1890–1958) was the Anglicanism, Anglican Anglican ministry#Bishops, Bishop Diocese of Western China, of Western China from 1925 to 1933, and Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Archbishop of Sydney from 1933 until his ...

, Archbishop of Sydney."Meet the assistant bishops"
in ''Southern Cross'', September 1981. pp. 28–29 After a curacy in Manly he was Rector at

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from 1956 to 1969, when he became

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, his last position before being ordained to the

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. He was consecrated bishop on 25 July 1972 at

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. He died in January 2016 several weeks after consecration of new Bishop of South Sydney. He was chairman of

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and was involved in missionary organisation Interserve.

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1928 births University of Melbourne alumni Anglican archdeacons in Australia 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney 2016 deaths Moore Theological College alumni {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub