Peter Stuart (bishop)

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Peter Stuart
Bishop of Newcastle
Church Anglican Church of Australia
Diocese Newcastle
Installed2 February 2018 [1]
Other post(s)Assistant bishop, Diocese of Newcastle (2009–2018)
Orders
Ordination1989 (as deacon)
1990 (as priest)
Consecration2 February 2009
by  Peter Jensen
Personal details
Born1963 (age 6061) [2]
Nationality British, Australian
Denomination Anglican
SpouseNicki [2]
Children2 [2]
Alma mater University of Tasmania (B. Comm)
Melbourne College of Divinity (B. Div)
University of Technology, Sydney (M. Management)
Flinders University (D. Education) [2]

Peter Derrick James Stuart [3] (born 1963) is a British-born Anglican bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He has served as the bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle since 2 February 2018. He previously served as an assistant bishop in the diocese from 2009 to 2018. [2]

Stuart has generated attention within the Anglican Church of Australia for his social justice activism. He supported the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW [4] . He actively supported the LGBTIQA+ community in campaigns calling for an to end conversion practices. [5] The Newcastle Diocese supports the blessing of people in same-sex marriages [6]

Following the retirement of Brian Farran on 15 December 2012, until the installation Bishop Greg Thompson on 2 February 2014, [7] Stuart administered the diocese. [8] He resumed administration of the diocese on 1 December 2016 prior to Thompson's resignation as bishop on 31 May 2017 due to bullying. [9] He was elected as the Bishop of Newcastle by the diocesan synod on 25 November 2017 and was installed on 2 February 2018. [1]

Stuart was born in England in 1963, emigrating to Australia in 1971. He is a graduate of the University of Tasmania, the Melbourne College of Divinity (entering Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne in 1987), the University of Technology in Sydney and Flinders University. [10] [11] He was ordained deacon in 1989 and priest in 1990 in the Diocese of Tasmania. He served as principal of St Barnabas College, Adelaide from 2002 to 2009. [2] He was consecrated as a bishop on 2 February 2009 by Archbishop Peter Jensen at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.

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References

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