Andrew Curnow

Andrew William Curnow AM is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia. He was the ninth bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Bendigo in regional Victoria, from 2003 to 2017.[1]

Andrew Curnow
Former Bishop of Bendigo
DioceseAnglican Diocese of Bendigo, Australia
Installed28 June 2003
Term ended2 December 2017
PredecessorDavid Bowden
SuccessorMatt Brain
Orders
Ordination1974
Consecration1994
Personal details
Birth nameAndrew William Curnow
Born1950
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
DenominationAnglican
ResidenceBendigo, Victoria
SpouseJan Curnow

Curnow took degrees in commerce, divinity and arts, entering residence at Trinity College in 1968 where he was awarded the Marley Studentship in Theology.[2] He was ordained priest in 1974 and served in the Bendigo, Melbourne and New York dioceses. In 1994 he was appointed assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne, serving the northern region. He was enthroned as bishop of Bendigo on 28 June 2003 where he served until his retirement in 2017.[3]

Curnow has lived, studied and ministered in widely diverse communities and parishes, ranging from those in rural Victoria (Elmore, Lockington), to regional centres such as Bendigo, Melbourne suburbs (West Coburg, Pascoe Vale South, Kew and Malvern) and overseas in New York and Virginia in the United States and Oxford in England. He is prominent in his concern for welfare issues (through involvement in and leadership of groups such as Anglicare Australia, St Luke's Anglicare, the Brotherhood of St Laurence and welfare services such as New Horizons Welfare Services in Kyneton, Victoria).

Curnow has had leadership roles in Christian education in the Council for Christian Education in Schools, at Braemar College and the Melbourne College of Divinity. He has a particular interest in the theology of mission in contemporary Australia on which he has written extensively. He is married to Jan Curnow.[4]

References
  1. "Bishop Andrew Curnow New Bishop of Bendigo", Trinity Today, September 2003.
  2. "Salvete 1968", Fleur-de-lys [Trinity College], 1968, p. 57.
  3. Ashley Fritsch, "Anglican Bishop of Bendigo Andrew Curnow lays up his pastoral staff", Bendigo Advertiser, 2 Dec. 2017.
  4. Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000


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