Ross Davies | |
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Bishop of The Murray | |
Church |
Anglican Church of Australia (to 2010) Roman Catholic Church (since 2010) |
Province | South Australia |
Diocese | The Murray |
In office | 2002–2010 |
Predecessor | Graham Walden |
Successor | John Ford |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1981 (deacon) 1982 (priest) |
Laicized | 13 December 2010 |
Personal details | |
Born | Ross Owen Davies 4 February 1955 |
Denomination | Roman Catholicism (formerly Anglicanism) |
Ross Owen Davies (born 4 February 1955) is an Australian former Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of the Diocese of The Murray in the Anglican Church of Australia from 2002 to 2010. [1]
Davies was educated at the University of Melbourne ( BA 1977, LLB 1979) and St Barnabas College, Adelaide ( Australian College of Theology, ThL 1981). [2] He served in parishes in Australia until 1991, the last of which was as rector of St Paul's, Camperdown. [3] He was then priest-in-charge of Mundford, Ickburgh and Cranwich (1991–94) and then curate of Somerton with Compton Dundon (1994–97). [2] He then returned to Australia, where he was rector of Hindmarsh, South Australia (1997-2000), before becoming Archdeacon of The Murray (2000–02). [2]
In 2002 he was appointed the bishop of the Diocese of The Murray in the Anglican Church of Australia. [1] In September 2010, he resigned and was found guilty by a church tribunal of "disgraceful conduct and wilful violation of church ordinances". [4] [5] [6] He was subsequently removed from holy orders on 13 December 2010, only the second bishop to be so removed. [7] [8]
Davies had belonged to the traditionalist Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism. [9] On 27 September 2010, three days after resigning as the Bishop of The Murray, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church as a layman by Philip Wilson, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide. [10]