Kenneth Bruce Mason AM (September 4, 1928 - December 20, 2018) was an

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bishop in

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. Mason was educated at the University of Queensland and ordained in 1953. His first position was as a

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at Gilgandra. He then held incumbencies at

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and

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. From 1965 to 1968 he was Dean of Trinity College, Melbourne. As a professed member of the

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, Mason was known as "Brother Aiden" until his consecration as a bishop. On 24 February 1968, at

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, he was consecrated to the episcopate to serve as the Bishop of the Northern Territory, a position he held until 1983. From 1983 to 1993 Mason was chairman of the Australian Board of Missions (now called the Anglican Board of Mission - Australia). In retirement, Mason regularly attended St James' Church, Sydney, where a Requiem Eucharist was held for him on 19 January 2019.

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1928 births 2018 deaths University of Queensland alumni 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia Anglican bishops of the Northern Territory Members of the Order of Australia Bush Brotherhood priests {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub