Allan Bowers Ewing
(born 1951) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop who served as the
Anglican Bishop of Bunbury from 2010 to 2017,
and prior to that as an assistant bishop in the
Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn
The Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn is one of the 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese has 60 parishes covering most of south-east New South Wales, the eastern Riverina and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It st ...
from 2004 to 2009.
Born in England in 1951, he was formerly an accountant. He was
ordained
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as deacon in the
Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn in 1987 and priest the following year.
Ewing served in
Holbrook,
and
Batemans Bay
Batemans Bay is a town on the South Coast region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Batemans Bay is administered by the Eurobodalla Shire council. The town is situated on the shores of an estuary formed where the Clyde River meets the ...
prior to becoming
Archdeacon
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of North Canberra and Rector of
St John's Canberra. On 2 February 2004
he was consecrated as
Assistant bishop
An assistant bishop in the Anglican Communion is a bishop appointed to assist a diocesan bishop.
Church of England
In the established Church of England, assistant bishops are usually retired (diocesan or suffragan) bishops – in which case th ...
in the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, and was based in
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 56,000 as of June 2018, Wagga Wagga is the state's ...
. He was enthroned as the ninth Bishop of Bunbury in the Cathedral Church of St Boniface on 10 July 2010.
References
1951 births
Anglican bishops of Bunbury
Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn
21st-century Anglican bishops in Australia
Living people
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