Bevan Meredith
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Bevan Meredith | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Papua New Guinea | |
| Church | Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea |
| See | New Guinea Islands (1977–1995) |
| In office | 1990–1995 |
| Other post(s) | Assistant Bishop of New Guinea (1967–1977) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1961 deacon, 1962 priest by Philip Strong |
| Consecration | 1967 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 August 1927 Alstonville, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 17 December 2019 (aged 92) Brisbane, Australia |
Bevan Stanley Meredith (14 August 1927 – 17 December 2019) was an Anglican clergyman in Australia and Papua New Guinea who was Bishop of the New Guinea Islands (1977–1995) and Archbishop of Papua New Guinea (1990–1995).
Meredith was born in 1927,[1] the son of Stanley Meredith, who was a teacher,[2][3] and his wife Edith (née Witchard).[4]
He was educated at Towalbyn Public School in Uralba[5] and Ballina High School.[6] In 1945 the family moved to Mango Hill in Queensland.[7] Initially working on the family farm, he then became a clerk at the City Electric Light Company.[8] Meredith then became a teacher, initially at a small Anglican school called St Christopher's in Brookfield, which had been established by Fr Robert Bates, Rector of All Saints, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane.[9]
From 1948 he taught at the Slade School in Warwick,[10] before moving to Papua & New Guinea in 1954 to teach at the Martyrs School in Popondetta.[11] This was only three years after the Mount Lamington volcanic eruption which destroyed the school, and at the time it was still being rebuilt.[12]