Reg Piper

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Reg Piper
Assistant Bishop
DioceseSydney
Orders
Ordination1967
Personal details
Birth nameReginald John Piper
Born (1942-02-25) 25 February 1942 (age 79)
Goulburn, New South Wales
NationalityAustralian
DenominationAnglicanism
SpouseDorothy Piper[1]
OccupationBishop
Previous post(s)Bishop of Wollongong (1993 – 2007)
EducationCorrimal High School[2]
Alma mater

Reginald John Piper (born 25 February 1942) was an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney who served as the Bishop of Wollongong from 1993 to 2007.

Piper was born in Goulburn[3] and educated at Corrimal High School[2] and at the Australian National University.[4] After studying at Moore Theological College he was ordained in 1967.[5] He had curacies at St Stephen's Willoughby and St Clement's Lalor Park before incumbencies at St Aidan's Hurstville Grove, Christ Church, Kiama and Holy Trinity, Adelaide before his ordination to the episcopate. He is married to Dorothy Piper.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000
  2. ^ a b Campbell, David (7 March 2001). Corrimal High School Fiftieth Anniversary (Speech). Hansard. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ^ Sydney Anglican[dead link]
  4. ^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory: 1975-76, Lambeth, Church House, 1975, ISBN 0-19-200008-X


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