Bob Dann

Robert William "Bob" Dann (28 September 1914 – 10 April 2008)^[1] was the 9th Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne.

Dann studied for ordination at Trinity College at the University of Melbourne^[2] and was ordained in 1946. His first post was as Director of Youth and Religious Education in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne. After successive incumbencies^[3] he was appointed the Archdeacon of Essendon and, in 1969, he became a bishop coadjutor of the diocese before becoming the archbishop eight years later.^[4] He retired in 1983.

He died on 10 April 2008, aged 93.^[5]

Notes

1. All the Company of Heaven: A Guide to the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beaumaris. Retrieved 1 March 2014
2. “Who’s Who, 2007” London, AC Black, 2006 ISBN 978-0-7136-7527-6
3. Early Career
4. "A New Archbishop of Melbourne", The Times, 10 November 1977, p. 18.
5. Some sources give the date of death as 11 April, but a death notice inserted by his family in The Age of 14 April 2008 states 10 April.