William Johnson (bishop)

William Herbert Johnson was the 5th Anglican Bishop of Ballarat in Australia.^[1]

Johnson was born in Brighton, South Australia^[2] on 12 May 1889 and educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and Adelaide University. He was ordained in 1914 and his first ministry position was as a curate at Holy Trinity, Kew in Melbourne. After World War I service as a chaplain to the AIF he was the rector of St Cuthbert’s Prospect, South Australia where he remained until his appointment as the Dean of Newcastle.^[3] In 1936 he was ordained to the episcopate and was still in post at his death on 15 July 1960.^[4]

References

↑ National Library of Australia
↑ “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–41 Oxford, OUP,1941
↑ Obituary Bishop Of Ballarat The Times Monday, 18 Jul 1960; pg. 12; Issue 54826; col G

Bishops of Ballarat

Samuel Thornton Arthur Green Maxwell Maxwell-Gumbleton Philip Crick William Johnson William Hardie John Hazlewood David Silk Michael Hough Garry Weatherill

Deans of Newcastle (Australia)

Arthur Selwyn Jack Stretch Cyril Golding-Bird Henry Archdall Horace Crotty William Johnson Thomas Armour Arthur Morris Norman Blow William Hardie John Falkingham Robert Beal Graeme Lawrence James Rigney Stephen Williams

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Philip Charles Thurlow Crick	Bishop of Ballarat 1936–1960	Succeeded by William Hardie

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