Colin Davies Sheumack (9 February 1929 – 5 January 2006) was the 8th
Bishop
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of
Gippsland
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from 1987 to 1994.
Sheumack was educated at Inverell High School and
Moore College. He was
Rector of Kemeruka and then Kyabram,
Archdeacon
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of
Bendigo
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As of 2022, Bendigo has a popula ...
and
Dean of Bathurst before his ordination to the
episcopate
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. He was consecrated a bishop on 20 December 1987 at
St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.
References
1929 births
Moore Theological College alumni
Archdeacons of Bendigo
Anglican bishops of Gippsland
Deans of Bathurst
2006 deaths
20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
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