Rhys Bezzant
Australian Anglican priest and church historian
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Rhys Stewart Bezzant FRHS is an Australian Anglican priest and church historian. He has been principal of Ridley College in Melbourne since 2025.[1]
Bezzant studied at the University of Melbourne, the University of Cologne, and Ridley College.[2] He was ordained a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne in 1997.[2]
Bezzant specialises in the work of Jonathan Edwards and has written Edwards the Mentor (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Edwards, Germany, and Transatlantic Contexts (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021). He is director of the Jonathan Edwards Center of Australia.[3]
Bezzant has also translated Volker Leppin's Francis of Assisi into English (Yale University Press, 2025). He became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022.[4]