Geoffrey Sambell

Archbishop of Perth
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IntroArchbishop of Perth
wasPriest
Work fieldReligion
Gender
Male
Religion:Anglicanism
Birth28 October 1914
Death19 December 1980 (aged 66 years)
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Biography

Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell (28 October 1914 – 19 December 1980) was an Australian Anglican bishop.

Sambell was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne. He was ordained in 1940. He began his ordained ministry as an army chaplain, after which he was director of the Melbourne Diocesan Centre and Archdeacon of Essendon. He was Bishop Coadjutor of Diocese from 1962 to 1969 when he was elected Archbishop of Perth and Metropolitan of Western Australia, posts he held to his death.

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