Greg Thompson

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Gregory Edwin "Greg" Thompson (* 1956 in Muswellbrook , New South Wales , Australia ) is a clergyman and former bishop of the Anglican Church in Australia .

Life

Thompson studied Anglican theology at the University of Newcastle . He completed his training as an Anglican priest at Ridley College of the Evangelical Anglican College in Melbourne . Thompson was ordained in 1986 . From 1988 to 1994, Thompson was a priest in an Anglican parish in Darwin . From 1994 to 1999 he was the New South Wales State Secretary of the Bush Church Aid Society . From 1999 to 2004 he was Rector of St John's Church in the Darlinghurst neighborhood in Sydney and then Rector of St John's Church in Canberra . From 2007 to 2013 he was Philip Free Bishop of the Northern Territory, succeeding Philip . From 2013 Thompson was the successor of Brian Farran Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle . In 2017 he resigned prematurely for health reasons; he was succeeded by Peter Stuart .

In the 1970s, at the age of 19, he was sexually abused by Anglican Bishop Ian Shevill while he was a priest .

Thompson is married.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helen Gregory: Anglican bishop keen to build community. The Newcastle Herald . October 15, 2013, accessed January 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Ntanglcian.org: Our history
  3. ^ Sam Rigney: New Anglican bishop promises justice, compassion. The Newcastle Herald. February 14, 2014, accessed January 23, 2019.
  4. ^ Anglican bishop keen to build community. Episcopal Cafe. March 16, 2017, accessed January 23, 2019.
  5. ^ Joanne McCarthy: Anglican bishop Greg Thompson sexually abused by late Bishop Ian Shevill. The Newcastle Herald. October 26, 2015, accessed January 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ Steven Trask: Bishop who was sexually abused as a teenager still has the portrait of the minister who molested him hanging in his church. Daily Mail . July 21, 2016, accessed January 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Gregory Edwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian Anglican bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Muswellbrook , New South Wales , Australia