David McCall

William David Hair McCall (born 1940) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop.^[1]

McCall was born into a distinguished family^[2] and educated at Launceston Church Grammar School, Sydney Grammar School. He studied for the priesthood at St Michael’s Theological College in Crafers and was ordained in 1963.

He served curacies at St Alban’s Griffith and St Peter’s Broken Hill.^[3] He was then priest-in-charge of Barellan-Weethalle, Rector of St John’s Corowa and (his last post before ordination to the episcopate) the incumbent of St George’s, Goodwood.^[4] In 1987 he became Bishop of Willochra^[5] and in 2000 was translated to the Diocese of Bunbury. He is married to Marion Carmel McCall.^[6] His eldest son, the Rev'd Dr Theo D. McCall, is Chaplain of St Peter's College, Adelaide and Adjunct lecturer of St Barnabas' College and Charles Sturt University.^[7]

References

1. ↑ Diocese of Bunbury
2. ↑ His grandfather was Sir John McCall KCMG, Agent-General for Tasmania, “Who was Who” 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X; and his father an Anglican bishop; Who's Who 2008, London, A & C Black, ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975, ISBN 0-19-200008-X
4. ↑ Stgeorgesgoodwood.org - parish website
5. ↑ Anglican Archives
6. ↑ Anglican Communion Directory, March 2000
7. ↑ https://www.sbtc.org.au/about/faculty/