Peter Tasker is a former
assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney,
Bishop of Georges River
The assistant bishops of Sydney are the assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Australia. They each assist the Archbishop of Sydney by maintaining delegated episcopal oversight over a particular geographical area.
Prior to the form ...
.
Tasker was educated at
Moore Theological College
Moore Theological College, otherwise known simply as Moore College, is the theological training seminary of the Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia. The president of the Moore Theological College Council is ''ex officio'' t ...
and
ordained in 1964. After
curacies in
Wollongong,
Chatswood and
Engadine he was
Vicar of St George's
Penang
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in
Malaya
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Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
from 1970.
Tasker retired in 2009, but was acting bishop of Georges River from June 2013 to May 2015, when there was neither assistant bishop nor archdeacon, owing to funding problems.
Sydney Anglicans – Tasker back in Georges River
(Accessed 28 August 2013)
References
20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
21st-century Anglican bishops in Australia
Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney
Evangelical Anglican bishops
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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