Felix Arnott

Felix Raymond Arnott CMG, Th.D., M.A., B.A.^[1][2] (8 March 1911 – 27 July 1988) was the sixth Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane.^[3]

Early life and education[]

He was born on 8 March 1911 and educated at Ipswich School and Keble College, Oxford.^[4]

Career[]

Ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1934, his first post was a curacy in the parish of All Saints and St Mary, Elland (1934–38).^[5] After that he was chaplain to the Bishop of Wakefield (1936–39), during which he was also Vice-Principal of Bishops' College, Cheshunt (1938–39).^[6] He was then Warden of St John's College, Brisbane (1939–46).^[7] From 1946 to 1963, he held a similar post at St. Paul's College, Sydney, where he was also a lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the University of Sydney. In 1963, he became coadjutor Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Melbourne: he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1963 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.^[8] In 1970, he became Archbishop of Brisbane and Metropolitan of Queensland, posts he held for a decade. On retirement in 1980 he was then Honorary Chaplain in Venice for two years.^[9]

He died on 27 July 1988, and was survived by his wife Anne.^[10]

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