James Grant (Australian bishop)

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James Alexander Grant

Dean of Melbourne from 1985 to 1999.[1]

Grant was educated at the

ordained in 1959.[2][3] He also obtained a Bachelor of Divinity from the Melbourne College of Divinity in 1968.[2]

After

Broadmeadows he was chaplain to Frank Woods, Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, from 1966 until his consecration as a coadjutor bishop in Melbourne[4] on 21 December 1970 at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.[5] Grant was also chaplain of Trinity College from 1970 to 1975 and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, 1985–99. He had been chairman of Lowther Hall CEGGS, Tintern CEGGS, Melbourne CEGGS, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Mission to Streets and Lanes.[2]

Grant collaborated with Geoffrey Serle in the publication of The Melbourne Scene (1957), is the author of the centenary history of Trinity College, Perspective of a Century (1972), and a history of Anglicans in Victoria, Episcopally Led and Synodically Governed: Anglicans in Victoria 1803–1997 (2010). He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1994,[6] received a Jubilee Medal in 1977 and a Centenary Medal in 2001 and in his retirement continued to serve Trinity College as its bequest officer.[2]

Personal

Grant died on 10 July 2019. His widow is Rowena Armstrong

QC, a former Victorian Chief Parliamentary Counsel.[7]

References

  1. ^ Mahalo
  2. ^ a b c d "First Senior Fellows Appointed", Trinity College website news item, 21 Oct. 2010. (accessed 18 July 2015)
  3. p393
  4. ^ Melbourne Anglican
  5. ^ Anglican Archives Archived 10 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "The Right Reverend James Alexander GRANT". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Bishop James Grant dies after 60 years of service to diocese". tma.melbourneanglican.org.au. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
Religious titles
Preceded by
Tom William Thomas
Dean of Melbourne

1985–1999
Succeeded by