Richard Franklin Appleby (born 17 November 1940) is a retired Australian
Anglican
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bishop.
Appleby he was educated at the
University of Melbourne.
Ordained in 1967, his first posts were
curacies in
Glenroy and
North Balwyn. He was then
warden of
Wollaston College and
chaplain
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to the
Archbishop of Perth. From 1975 he was
rector
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of
Belmont
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and then
Dean of
Bathurst (1980–1983). From his consecration as a bishop on 2 February 1983 to 1992 he was
Assistant Bishop of Newcastle; then he became diocesan
Bishop of the Northern Territory until 1999; he served as an
Assistant Bishop of Brisbane
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for the Northern Region, until 5 February 2006; and finally as Bishop Assisting the
Primate of Australia. He is married to Elizabeth Appleby.
On 19 February 2019, the Professional Standards Tribunal of the Newcastle diocese recommended that Appleby be removed from
holy orders as a result of his failure to protect children after being informed of instances of child sexual abuse in the 1980s and '90s. However, a review board determined that Appleby had been denied procedural fairness in the decision.
References
1940 births
University of Melbourne alumni
Deans of Bathurst
Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle (Australia)
Anglican bishops of the Northern Territory
Living people
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