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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
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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
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prior to becoming
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of North Canberra and Rector of St John's Canberra. On 2 February 2004 he was consecrated as
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in the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, and was based in
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. He was enthroned as the ninth Bishop of Bunbury in the Cathedral Church of St Boniface on 10 July 2010.


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1951 births Anglican bishops of Bunbury Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn 21st-century Anglican bishops in Australia Living people {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub