Type: | bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Ken Mason | |
Bishop | |
Church: | Anglican Church of Australia |
Consecration: | 1968 |
Consecrated By: | Philip Strong |
Birth Date: | 4 September 1928 |
Birth Place: | Ashfield, Sydney, Australia |
Death Place: | Sydney, Australia |
Buried: | St James' Church, Sydney |
Religion: | 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]