James Randolph Leftwich (1944 - 27 January 2020) was the national

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bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia, licensed as an

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in the

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. Leftwich was educated at

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and Wontulp-bi-Buya College, and was ordained deacon in 1987 and priest in 1988. Leftwich served as bishop to the Aborigine peoples of northern

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and all

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from his consecration on 16 September 2001 until his retirement on 31 December 2010. He died in 2020.

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