Ken Mason | |
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Bishop | |
Church | Anglican Church of Australia |
Orders | |
Consecration | 1968 by Philip Strong |
Personal details | |
Born | Ashfield, Sydney, Australia | 4 September 1928
Died | 20 December 2018 90) Sydney, Australia | (aged
Buried | St James' Church, Sydney |
Denomination | Anglican |
Kenneth Bruce Mason AM [1] (4 September 1928 - 20 December 2018) was an Anglican bishop in Australia.
Mason was educated at the University of Queensland [2] and ordained in 1953. [3] His first position was as a curate at Gilgandra. He then held incumbencies at Darwin and Alice Springs. From 1965 to 1968 he was Dean of Trinity College, Melbourne. As a professed member of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd, Mason was known as "Brother Aiden" until his consecration as a bishop. On 24 February 1968, at St John's Cathedral (Brisbane), [4] he was consecrated to the episcopate to serve as the Bishop of the Northern Territory, [5] a position he held until 1983. From 1983 to 1993 Mason was chairman of the Australian Board of Missions (now called the Anglican Board of Mission - Australia).
In retirement, Mason regularly attended St James' Church, Sydney, where a Requiem Eucharist was held for him on 19 January 2019. [6]
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