The Rt Rev Peter Chiswell was Bishop of Armidale from 1976 to 1999.
He was born on 18 February 1934 and educated at the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

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. Ordained in 1959, he began his career with a curacy

Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 at Quirindi, New South Wales

Quirindi, New South Wales

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. He then held incumbencies

Vicar

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 in Bingara and Gunnedah. From 1971 to 1976 he was Archdeacon

Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...

 of Tamworth

Tamworth, New South Wales

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 when he was elevated to the Episcopate. A dedicated bushwalker and environmentalist, he is now retired.