Ian Shevill

Male, Deceased Person

1917 – 1988

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Who was Ian Shevill?

Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill AO was an Australian Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century.

Shevill was educated at Scot’s College, Sydney and Sydney University. He was ordained in 1941 and his first position was as a curate of St Paul's Burwood, New South Wales. From 1948 to 1953 he worked for the Society for the Propagation of Gospel when he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of North Queensland, a post he held for 17 years. In 1970 he became Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and in 1973 Bishop of Newcastle. An author, he retired in 1977 and died on 3 November 1988. He opened Bible House, Townsville, on 7 November 1964 with Canon H.M. Arrowsmith and Preston Walker of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

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Born
May 11, 1917
Died
Nov 3, 1988

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on July 23, 2013

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