Ken Mason | |
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Bishop | |
Church | Anglican Church of Australia |
Orders | |
Consecration | 1968 by Philip Strong |
Personal details | |
Born | Ashfield, Sydney, Australia | September 4, 1928
Died | December 20, 2018 Sydney, Australia | (aged 90)
Buried | St James' Church, Sydney |
Denomination | Anglican |
Kenneth Bruce Mason AM[1] (September 4, 1928 - December 20, 2018) was an Anglican bishop in Australia.
Mason was educated at the University of Queensland[2] and ordained in 1953.[3] His first position was as a curate at Gilgandra. He then held incumbencies at Darwin and Alice Springs. From 1965 to 1968 he was Dean of Trinity College, Melbourne. As a professed member of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd, Mason was known as "Brother Aiden" until his consecration as a bishop. On 24 February 1968, at St John's Cathedral (Brisbane),[4] he was consecrated to the episcopate to serve as the Bishop of the Northern Territory,[5] a position he held until 1983. From 1983 to 1993 Mason was chairman of the Australian Board of Missions (now called the Anglican Board of Mission - Australia).
In retirement, Mason regularly attended St James' Church, Sydney, where a Requiem Eucharist was held for him on 19 January 2019.[6]