Greg Thompson (bishop)

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Gregory Edwin "Greg" Thompson[1] is the current Bishop of the Northern Territory.[2] and was consecrated[3] on 31 May 2007 in Christ Church Cathedral, Darwin.[4]

Born in 1956, he was educated at Ridley College and ordained in 1986.[5] In 1988 he became Parish Priest of Darwin in the Northern Territory where he stayed until 1994. Then he became NSW State Secretary of the Bush Church Aid Society. In 1999 he became Rector of St John’s Darlinghurst;[6] and in 2004 of St John’s Canberra, his last post before his ordination to the episcopate.

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Philip Freier
Bishop of the Northern Territory
2007 – present
Succeeded by
incumbent

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