Tony Nichols

Anthony Howard "Tony" Nichols (born 29 March 1938) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop.^[1]

Nichols holds academic qualifications from the Universities of Sydney, London, Sheffield and Macquarie University. He was a Latin and history teacher until his ordination to the priesthood in 1963.^[2] He had curacies at St Paul’s Chatswood and St Bede’s Drummoyne. He was a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Moore College, Sydney from 1968 to 1981 and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Satya Wacana Christian University until 1987. A further academic appointment at St Andrew’s Hall, Melbourne (a Church Mission Society training college) was followed by his ordination to the episcopate as the fifth Bishop of North West Australia,^[3] a position he held until 2003. Since then he has been Dean of Students and a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Trinity Theological College in Perth. He is married to Judith M. Nichols.^[4]

References

1. ↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
2. ↑ Crockford’s 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
3. ↑ Diocesan website
4. ↑ Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000