Theodore McCall

Who was Theodore McCall?

Theodore Bruce McCall was an Anglican bishop in Australia.

Born into a distinguished family, McCall was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and was an apprentice at Mercantile Marine until 1931. He studied for the priesthood at St Columb’s Hall, Wangaratta, was ordained in 1936 and served first as a curate at Milawa. Later he was Rector of Yea and then a chaplain in the Second Australian Imperial Force. After World War II he was Rector of Macquarie and then Holy Trinity, Launceston. He was the Home Secretary of the Australian Board of Missions from 1953 until 1959 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the sixth Bishop of Rockhampton, a post he held for four years. He was later translated as the Bishop of Wangaratta, His son, David McCall, was Bishop of Bunbury from 2000 until 2010.