John Vockler

John Charles Vockler is a retired bishop and Franciscan friar. He was originally a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia but became the primate of the Anglican Catholic Church, a "Continuing Anglican. church^[1]

Vockler was born in Sydney on 22 July 1924 and educated at the University of Adelaide and ordained in 1948.^[2] He was an assistant priest at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle then Vice-Warden of St John's College, University of Queensland. After a short spell in New York he was a Lecturer in Theology at St John’s Theological College, Morpeth, New South Wales. Later he was Archdeacon of the Eyre Peninsula and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Adelaide. In 1963 he became Bishop of Polynesia,^[3] a post he held for five years. An eminent author,^[4] he was received into the Anglican Catholic Church in 1994.

Notes

1. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
2. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House,1975 ISBN 0108153674
3. ^ Times Wednesday, Jun 05, 1963; pg. 9; Issue 55719; col C
4. ^ Amongst others he wrote “Can Anglicans Believe Anything”—The Nature and Spirit of Anglicanism”, “One Man’s Journey”, 1972; and “Two Paths to Holiness” > British Library web site accessed 21:18 GMT Saturday 6th February, 2010