Bruce Rosier

Stanley Bruce Rosier AM (18 November 1928 – 28 February 2019) was a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia.[1]

Rosier was educated at the University of Western Australia, and Christ Church, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.[2][3] He was ordained in 1954[4] and began his ministry with a curacy at Ecclesall, after which he was the Rector of Wyalkatchem from 1957. He was then the Rector of Kellerberrin and, from 1967, an auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Perth. In 1970 he was appointed Bishop of Willochra, a post he held until 1987. He was then the Rector of St Oswald's Parkside[5] in Adelaide until his retirement in 1994.

References

  1. "Diocesan profiles". Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  2. "RHODES SCHOLARSHIP TO MR. S. B. ROSIER". The West Australian. 65 (19, 780). Western Australia. 8 December 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 15 March 2019 via National Library of Australia.
  3. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. Crockfords(London, Church House 1976) ISBN 0-19-200008-X
Religious titles
Preceded by
Thomas Edward Jones
Bishop of Willochra
1970–1987
Succeeded by
David McCall


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