David McCall
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William David Hair McCall (born 1940) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop.
McCall was born into a prominent family. His grandfather was John McCall KCMG, Agent-General for Tasmania, and his father, Theodore Bruce McCall, an Anglican bishop. He was educated at Launceston Church Grammar School, Sydney Grammar School. He studied for the priesthood at St Michael’s Theological College in Crafers, South Australia and was ordained in 1963.
He served curacies at St Alban’s Griffith and St Peter’s Broken Hill. He was then priest-in-charge ofBarellan-Weethalle, Rector ofSt John’s Corowa and (his last post before ordination to the episcopate) the incumbent of St George’s, Goodwood. On 1 November 1987, he was consecrated a bishop, and served asBishop of Willochra until in 2000 he was translated to the Diocese of Bunbury. He is married to Marion Carmel McCall, who is a pilot; their eldest son, Theo D. McCall (also a priest), is chaplain of St Peter's College, Adelaide, and an adjunct lecturer at St Barnabas' College and Charles Sturt University.