John Hepworth

John Anthony Hepworth ( born 1944 in Adelaide ) is an Australian Anglican bishop. He was from 2003 to 2012 Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, which is not in full communion with the Anglican Communion. Since 1998 he has been bishop of the Diocese of Australia in the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, which is part of the Traditional Anglican Communion.

Life

1968 Hepworth was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Adelaide. In 1976, he joined the Anglican Church of Australia. From 1977 to 1978 he was chaplain of the parish Colac and 1978-1980 Rector of South Ballarat based in Sebastopol in Ballarat. After he, because he was in the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia came about in 1992 against the introduction of women's ordination in the Anglican Communion, 1996, he was consecrated as a bishop. In 1998 he was finally diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Australia and entered 2002 as the successor of Archbishop Louis Falk as Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion to.

Hepworth has a degree in political science and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in 1982 with a thesis on the Catholic Action on " The Movement Revisited: A South Australian Perspective". Later, he received his doctorate. For five years, he was a lecturer in political science at the Northern Territory University before he became the coordinator of International Studies at the University of South Australia. In 1998 he was elected to the Australian Constitutional Convention (Australian Constitutional Convention ) as a member of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy ( Australians for Constitutional Monarchy ). He was formerly Chairman of the Australia- Vietnam Human Rights Committee in South Australia.

Hepworth advocates a full communion of the Traditional Anglican Communion with the Roman Catholic Church and is instrumental in the creation of the personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia involved.

Hepworth was twice married, has three children and lives in Adelaide suburb of Blackwood, South Australia.