Thomas Thornton Reed
CBE (9 September 1902 – 19 August 1995) was an
Anglican
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bishop.
Early life
Reed was educated at the
Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide
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and
Trinity College, University of Melbourne. He was
ordained in 1927 and after a
curacy at
St Augustine's,
Unley
Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Unley. The suburb is the home of the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Unley neighbours Adelaide Park Lands, Full ...
he was
priest in charge of the Berri Mission then a
resident tutor at
St Mark's College, University of Adelaide. From 1936 to 1954 he held
incumbencies at
Henley Beach and
Rose Park. He was then successively an
archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...
and
dean before becoming the
Bishop of Adelaide. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 May 1957 at
St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide. When the Province of South Australia included three dioceses with the creation of the Diocese of the Murray his position became that of Archbishop of Adelaide.
Anglican archives
References
1902 births
1995 deaths
People educated at Rossall School
People educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide
People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne)
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Anglican archdeacons in Australia
Deans of Adelaide
20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
20th-century Anglican archbishops
Anglican bishops of Adelaide
Anglican archbishops of Adelaide
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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