Ernest Eric Hawkey (1 June 190925 July 1986) was the sixth Bishop of Carpentaria, Australia, from 1968 to 1974. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney and

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deacon in 1933 and priest in 1936. After curacies at St Alban's, Ultimo (1933-34) and St Paul's, Burwood (1934-40) he was

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Kandos Kandos is a small town in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, within the Mid-Western Regional Council. The area is the traditional home of the Dabee tribe of the Wiradjuri people. The town sits beneath Cumber Melon Mountain (f ...

(1940-46) and then Rector (1946-47). From 1947 to 1968 he was

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of the

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and from 1962 a

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. He was consecrated a bishop on 23 April 1968 at

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. In 1970 he ordained the first Aborigine to become a priest, Patrick Brisbane.''Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74'', 85th Edition, p 115.

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1909 births People educated at Trinity Grammar School (New South Wales) Anglican bishops of Carpentaria 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1986 deaths {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub