Michael Stead

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Michael Stead
Bishop of South Sydney
Church Anglican Church of Australia
Province Province of New South Wales
Diocese Diocese of Sydney
In officeDecember 2015 to present
Predecessor Robert Forsyth
Orders
Ordination2001 (as deacon)
2002 (as priest) [1]
Consecration5 December 2015
by  Glenn Davies
Personal details
Born
Michael Stead

1969 (age 54–55)
NationalityAustralian
Denomination Anglicanism
SpouseFelicity [1]
Children3 [1]
Alma mater University of New South Wales (B. Comm (Acc)) [1]
Moore Theological College (BD, Dip. Min)
University of Gloucestershire (PhD) [2]

Michael Rennie Stead (born 1969) [1] is an Australian Anglican bishop. Since December 2015, he has been Bishop of South Sydney (Bishop of the Southern Region), an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sydney.

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Early life and ministry

Stead was brought to Sunday school at a Gospel Chapel in Brookvale, New South Wales by his grandmother, where he became a Christian. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Commerce (Accounting) in 1990, before later studying theology at Moore Theological College. [1]

Stead was ordained deacon in 2001 and priest in 2002. From 2001 to 2006, he served as an assistant minister at Turramurra, where he subsequently became Senior Assistant Minister in 2007 then Rector from 2008 to 2016. He also served as a visiting lecturer at Moore College, teaching in the Old Testament department and publishing a number of books (particularly on Zechariah). Stead completed a PhD at the University of Gloucester in 2007.

Episcopal ministry

On 24 August 2015, Archbishop Glenn Davies announced that he had chosen Stead as the next Bishop of South Sydney (Bishop of the Southern Region). Stead was to succeed Bishop Robert Forsyth who retired in December 2015. [2]

Stead was consecrated a bishop on 5 December 2015 by Glenn Davies, the Archbishop of Sydney. [3] As bishop he has worked with GAFCON, helping organise the 2013 and 2018 conferences, and was a member of the writing groups that produced the communiques for each of the GAFCON conferences. [1]

Stead was one of four nominees to replace Glenn Davies as Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, to be decided at a special election Synod in May 2021. [4] In 2019, the Sydney Morning Herald had described Stead as one of the "leading contenders" for the position. [5] Stead's name did not proceed to the final election list. [6]

Personal life

Stead is married to Felicity and has 3 children. [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Powell, Russell (24 August 2015). "Scholar bishop chosen for South Sydney". Sydney Anglicans. Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Michael Stead". Sydney Anglicans. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "As Nominee for the Office of Archbishop of Sydney". Introducing Kanishka Raffel. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Koziol, Michael (20 October 2019). "'Crisis point': the Anglican church is riven by worse divisions than ever before". Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment Co. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  6. ↑ Powell, Russell (6 May 2021). "Election update: One name through". Sydney Anglicans. Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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