Peter Tasker is a former assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Bishop of Georges River. Tasker was educated at Moore Theological College and

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in 1964. After

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he was

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of St George's Penang in Malaya from 1970. Tasker retired in 2009, but was acting bishop of Georges River from June 2013 to May 2015, when there was neither assistant bishop nor archdeacon, owing to funding problems.Sydney Anglicans – Tasker back in Georges River
(Accessed 28 August 2013)

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