Ray Smith (bishop)

The Right Reverend

Ray Smith
The Right Reverend; Ray Smith
Bishop of Liverpool
Church	Anglican Church of Australia
Province	Province of New South Wales
Diocese	Diocese of Sydney
In office	1 November 1993–31 December 2001
Successor	Peter Tasker
Orders
Ordination	1959 (as priest)
Consecration	1 November 1993; by Harry Goodhew
Personal details
Born	Raymond George Smith; 7 March 1936 (age 88)
Nationality	Australian
Denomination	Anglicanism
Spouse	Shirley
Alma mater	Australian College of Theology

Raymond George Smith (born 7 March 1936) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop. He served as an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, as the first Bishop of South Western Sydney (then called the "Bishop of Liverpool") from 1 November 1993 to 31 December 2001.^[1]^[2]

Smith was educated at the Australian College of Theology and ordained in 1959.^[3]^[4] He served as priest in the Diocese of Armidale from 1959 to 1986, ministering to the parishes of Barraba, Moree, Ashford and Uralla and during that time was collated as archdeacon within the diocese.^[5] He was then the Director of Extension Ministries at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania in the United States until 1990 when he returned to Australia to be the Archdeacon of South Canberra and Rector of Wanniassa the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn,^[6] his last positions before being ordained to the episcopate.

Following his retirement as an assistant bishop, Smith worked as an assistant minister at St Philip's Church, Sydney until 2019.^[7]

Smith is married to Shirley and has three children.^[8]^[7]

References

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^ "T.E.E. A HIT IN NORTH WEST" (PDF). The Real Australian. No. 12. Bush Church Aid Society. December 1981.
^ AMS Staff (23 January 2003). "New evangelist keen to see lives changed". Sydney Anglicans. Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b "About Us". Church Hill Anglican. Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000