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Max Thomas (bishop)

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Died
  
2008

Maxwell McNee "Max" Thomas (23 August 1926 - 2008) was an Australian Anglican bishop.

Thomas' father was the Revd Charles Elliot Thomas, sometime vicar of Upper Clarence. He was educated at St. Paul's College, Sydney. He was ordained in 1952 and was a curate at East Maitland. Later he was priest in charge, then rector, of The Entrance, New South Wales. After this he was a fellow and tutor at the General Theological Seminary, New York. He was a chaplain at the University of Melbourne from 1964 to 1968 and then the consultant theologian to the Archbishop of Melbourne. In 1975 he was ordained to the episcopate as the sixth Bishop of Wangaratta, a post he held for a decade. His last post before retirement was as warden of his alma mater, St Paul's College, Sydney.

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