| Ross Davies | |
| Bishop of The Murray | |
| Church: | Anglican Church of Australia (to 2010) Roman Catholic Church (since 2010) |
| Province: | South Australia |
| Diocese: | The Murray |
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| Term: | 2002–2010 |
| Predecessor: | Graham Walden |
| Successor: | John Ford |
| Ordination: | 1981 (deacon) 1982 (priest) |
| Laicized: | 13 December 2010 |
| Birth Name: | Ross Owen Davies |
| Birth Date: | 4 February 1955 |
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| Religion: | Roman Catholicism (formerly Anglicanism) |
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Ross Owen Davies (born 4 February 1955) is an Australian former Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of the Diocese of The Murray in the Anglican Church of Australia from 2002 to 2010.[1]
Davies was educated at the University of Melbourne (BA 1977, LLB 1979) and St Barnabas College, Adelaide (Australian College of Theology, ThL 1981).[2] He served in parishes in Australia until 1991, the last of which was as rector of St Paul's, Camperdown.[3] He was then priest-in-charge of Mundford, Ickburgh and Cranwich (1991–94) and then curate of Somerton with Compton Dundon (1994–97).[2] He then returned to Australia, where he was rector of Hindmarsh, South Australia (1997-2000), before becoming Archdeacon of The Murray (2000–02).[2]
In 2002 he was appointed the bishop of the Diocese of The Murray in the Anglican Church of Australia.[1] In September 2010, he resigned and was found guilty by a church tribunal of "disgraceful conduct and wilful violation of church ordinances".[4] [5] [6] He was subsequently removed from holy orders on 13 December 2010, only the second bishop to be so removed.[7] [8]
Davies had belonged to the traditionalist Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism.[9] On 27 September 2010, three days after resigning as the Bishop of The Murray, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church as a layman by Philip Wilson, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide.[10]