Peter Robert Watson (born 1936) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop. He served as the

Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne The Archbishop of Melbourne is the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Australia, and ''ex officio'' metropolitan bishop of the ecclesiastical Province of Victoria. List of bishops and archbishops of Melbourne References ...

from 2000 to 2005.

Biography

Watson was born in

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in 1936. He attended

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. He was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

as a priest in Sydney in 1962 and consecrated as the Bishop of Parramatta (in Sydney) in 1989 and became Bishop of South Sydney in 1993. In 2000 he was elected to succeed Keith Rayner as Archbishop of Melbourne and was installed on 14 May 2000. He retired as archbishop effective 31 December 2005. He is married to Margo (Eleanor) Watson.Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000
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"Archbishop's Presidential Charge to Synod"
Living people 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia 21st-century Anglican archbishops Anglican archbishops of Melbourne Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney 1936 births {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub