Peter Tasker Explained

Peter Tasker is a former assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Bishop of Georges River.[1] [2]

Tasker was educated at Moore Theological College and ordained in 1964. After curacies in Wollongong, Chatswood and Engadine he was Vicar of St George's Penang in Malaya from 1970.[3]

Tasker retired in 2009, but was acting bishop of Georges River from June 2013 to May 2015, when there was neither assistant bishop nor archdeacon, owing to funding problems.[4]

References

  1. http://www.laurieferguson.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/reid-report-2009-january.pdf Photo of Bishop Peter
  2. http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/bishop_tasker Sydney Anglicans
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
  4. http://sydneyanglicans.net/news/tasker-back-in-georges-river Sydney Anglicans – Tasker back in Georges River