Jeffrey Driver

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Jeffrey William Driver (born 6 October 1951[1]) is the current Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of South Australia in the Anglican Church of Australia.[2]

Driver grew up in the New South Wales country town of Cowra. His theological education was undertaken through the Australian College of Theology. After a short career as a newspaper journalist he was ordained in 1977 and began his career as an assistant curate in Bathurst. He held incumbencies at Mid-Richmond and Jamison and was later Archdeacon of Young, New South Wales and then Canberra.

In 2001, Driver was appointed Bishop of Gippsland in eastern Victoria,[3] a position he held until his translation to Adelaide.[4]

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