John Noble (bishop)

John Ashley Noble (born 30 March 1944) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop.

Noble was educated at St Francis Theological College, Brisbane and the University of Queensland.^[1] He was ordained in 1968^[2] and combined a career as a teacher with a ministry as a school chaplain until 1982. He then held incumbencies at St John’s Dalby^[3] and St Barnabas’ Sunnybank.^[4] From 1989 to 1993 he was a lecturer at St Francis' Theological College and then an assistant bishop^[5] of the northern region of the Diocese of Brisbane. He became Bishop of North Queensland in 2002, a position he held until 2007.

References

1. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
3. Church website
4. Photo of church
5. Anglican Archives