John Vockler

Who is John Vockler?

John Charles Vockler was a retired Australian Continuing Anglican bishop and Franciscan friar. He was originally a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia but became the primate of the Anglican Catholic Church, a Continuing Anglican church.

Vockler was educated at the University of Adelaide and ordained an Anglican priest in 1948. He was an assistant priest at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle then vice-warden of St John's College, University of Queensland. After a short time in New York he was a lecturer in theology at St John’s Theological College, Morpeth, New South Wales. Later he was Archdeacon of the Eyre Peninsula and an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Adelaide. In 1963 he became the Bishop of Polynesia, a post he held for five years. After resigning as Bishop of Polynesia, he was professed as an Anglican Franciscan friar and was later a member of the more conservative Franciscan Order of the Divine Compassion. After moving to the United States he was initially an assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy. He was received into the Anglican Catholic Church in 1994.