Anthony Francis Berners "Tony" Hall-Matthews was the last Bishop of Carpentaria.
He was born into an ecclesiastical familyHis father was the Rev. Cecil Berners Hall, Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 on 14 November 1940 and educated at St Francis Theological College, Brisbane and James Cook University. He was ordained in 1966.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 After a curacy in Darwin he was chaplain of the Carpentaria Aerial Mission and then rector of Normanton. From 1976 to 1984 he was the Archdeacon of Cape York Peninsula when he was ordained to the episcopate: he was consecrated a bishop on 1 March 1984 at St John's Cathedral (Brisbane).Anglican Archives Known as the "Flying Bishop" he retiredRural Legends effective 2 February 1996.
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