Brian Farran

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Farran was educated at the Australian National University and St John's College, Morpeth.[2] Ordained in 1968[3] his first positions were curacies at St Philip's O’Connor and St Alban's Griffith. He was then incumbent at the Church of the Epiphany, Lake Cargelligo, St Barnabas' North Rockhampton and St Saviour's Gladstone. In 1983 he became Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Rockhampton, and then an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Perth, serving first the Goldfields Region then the Northern Region. In 2005 he became the diocesan bishop of Newcastle.[4] He retired on 15 December 2012.[5] He is married to Robin Farran.

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  1. Communion website
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  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 Template:ISBN
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  5. Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000

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