Robert Charles Forsyth (born 8 June 1949) is an Australian Anglican bishop who served as the

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

Bishop of South Sydney, a region of 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 ...

, from 2000 to 2015. Before this he was the

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St. Barnabas, Broadway St Barnabas Anglican Church, Broadway, is an Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican church in the Sydney Anglicans, Diocese of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The church property is located on Broadway, New South Wales, Broadway, near the Uni ...

. Forsyth is married to Margie and has four children and ten grandchildren. He attended Meadowbank Boys High School and was a candidate for the Methodist ministry for a number of years but changed to Anglican candidature in 1972. On 19 January 2008, Forsyth condemned '' Corpus Christi'', a

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depicting

Judas Judas Iscariot (; grc-x-biblical, Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης; syc, ܝܗܘܕܐ ܣܟܪܝܘܛܐ; died AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. According to all four canonical gospels, Judas betraye ...

seducing

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

: "It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it." The play also showed Jesus administrating a

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between two of his male apostles. Afp.google.com, Row erupts in Australia over 'gay' Jesus play: report

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External links

Profile on the Diocese of Sydney's website (archive 2015-02-27)
an article in the ''

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'' after St Barnabas' church building was destroyed by fire.
"Church spends $50K to debunk Da Vinci claims"
a story from the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' about the Sydney diocese's response to ''

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''.
"Church acts against Da Vinci film"
a story from

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Forsyth, Robert Charles Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney Living people 1949 births