Clyde Wood

Clyde Wood
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Clyde Maurice Wood AM (7 January 1936) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop.

Wood was educated at Monash University[1] and ordained in 1965.[2] His first ordained ministry position was as a curate of St John’s Bentleigh. From 1966 he was curate-in-charge of St Paul’s Ringwood. He then held positions at St Philip’s Mount Waverley[3] and St Christopher's Armadale, all parishes in Melbourne. In 1978 he became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Darwin,[4] and in 1983 he became the second Bishop of the Northern Territory,[5] a position he held until 1992. For four years he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of North Queensland and in 1996 he became its diocesan bishop.[6] He retired in 2002.

Religious titles
Preceded by
Kenneth Bruce Mason		 Bishop of the Northern Territory
1983 –1992		 Succeeded by
Richard Franklin Appleby
Preceded by
John Ashley Noble		 Bishop of North Queensland
1996 –2002		 Succeeded by
William James Ray

References

  1. ^ Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  2. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1976 ISBN 0108153674
  3. ^ Church website
  4. ^ London Gazette
  5. ^ NT timeline
  6. ^ Anglican Archives
v · d · eBishops of the Northern Territory

Kenneth Bruce Mason • Clyde Maurice Wood • Richard Franklin Appleby • Philip Leslie Freier • Gregory Edwin Thompson •
v · d · eBishops of North Queensland

George Henry Stanton • Christopher George Barlow • George Horsfall Frodsham • John Oliver Feetham • Wilfrid Bernard Belcher • Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill • Hurtle John Lewis • John Ashley Noble  • Clyde Maurice Wood • William James Ray •



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