Garry Weatherill

Who is Garry Weatherill?

Garry John Weatherill is the current Anglican Bishop of Ballarat. He was the sixth Bishop of Willochra.

Weatherill was educated at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University. Ordained in 1987, he began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Jude’s Church, Brighton after which he was a minor canon at St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide until 1990. He was then Rector of Semaphore and then Archdeacon of Willochra before his ordination to the episcopate in 2000.

It was announced in 2011 that Weatherill had been elected as the next Bishop of Ballarat. He was installed on 5 November 2011.