Felix Arnott
Felix Raymond Arnott CMG, Th.D., M.A., B.A.[1][2] (1914-1986) was the sixth Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane.[3]
Early life and education
He was born on 8 March 1914 and educated at Ipswich School and Keble College, Oxford.[4]
Career
Ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1934, his first post was a curacy in the parish of All Saints and St Mary, Elland.[5] After which, he was chaplain to the Bishop of Wakefield, then Warden of St John’s College, Brisbane. From 1946 to 1963, he held a similar post at St. Paul's College, Sydney, where he was also a lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the University of Sydney. In 1963, he became coadjutor Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Melbourne: he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1963 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.[6] In 1970, he became Archbishop of Brisbane and Metropolitan of Queensland, posts he held for a decade.
He died on 27 July 1986.
References
- ^ ADB online
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Anglican Archives website". Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ Who was Who 1897-1990 (London, A & C Black, 1991) ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
- ^ Anglican Archives Archived 10 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- 1914 births
- People from Ipswich
- People educated at Ipswich School
- Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
- Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
- University of Queensland faculty
- University of Sydney faculty
- 20th-century Anglican bishops
- 20th-century Anglican archbishops
- Anglican Archbishops of Brisbane
- Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- 1988 deaths