Bruce Allan Schultz (24 May 1932 – 27 July 2012) was the eighth

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in the Anglican Church of Australia. Schultz was educated at Culcairn High School,

St Columb's Hall, Wangaratta St Columb's Hall, Wangaratta was a theological college which opened in 1903 to train clergy to serve the Anglican Church in Australia. It closed in 1969. Opened by Thomas Henry Armstrong, the first Bishop of Wangaratta, St Columb's Hall funct ...

and St John's College, Morpeth. He was briefly a sheep farmer before beginning his ordained ministry as a

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. After this he was priest in charge at

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and then the

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and Dean of

Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton Christ Church Cathedral is a heritage-listed Anglican cathedral complex at Duke Street, Grafton, Clarence Valley Council, New South Wales, Australia. The cathedral was designed by John Horbury Hunt and built from 1874 to 1884 by Reynold Brothe ...

. He was consecrated a bishop on 1 March 1983 at

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and served as an

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until his election to Grafton. He retired effective 14 January 1998.https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/ANG.0412.001.0202.pdf Schultz died in Buderim Views in 2012; he was married and had children.

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1932 births 2012 deaths People educated at St Columb's Hall, Wangaratta People educated at St John's College, Morpeth Anglican archdeacons in Australia Deans of Grafton Anglican bishops of Grafton Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub