John Hepworth was the ordinary of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia and the archbishop and primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, an international body of continuing Anglican churches, from 2003 to 2012.
12 Facts About John Hepworth
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In 1992 John Hepworth joined the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia.
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On 29 June 1996 he was consecrated as a bishop, together with Robert John Friend, in the Pro-Cathedral of the Resurrection, Brisbane, by bishops Albert N Haley, Robert C Crawley, Wellborn Hudson and John Hazlewood.
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John Hepworth served as an assistant bishop until April 1998 when Bishop Friend resigned.
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John Hepworth was involved in a process to create an Australian ordinariate for former Anglicans in the Roman Catholic Church.
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John Hepworth was not raised Anglican, but had left the Roman Catholic Church and then married twice and had three children.
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On 16 May 2012, the TAC College of Bishops suspended John Hepworth, meaning that he ceased to be the TAC Bishop Ordinary of Australia.
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John Hepworth had a degree in political science and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Adelaide in 1982 with a thesis about Catholic Action entitled "The Movement Revisited: A South Australian Perspective".
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John Hepworth formerly chaired the Australia-Vietnam Human Rights Committee in South Australia.
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John Hepworth was formerly heard regularly on Adelaide's 5AA radio station where he acted as a political commentator on the conservative Leon Byner Show.
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John Hepworth was active in Liberal Party of Australia politics and was chair of the Boothby Liberal Federal Electorate Council from which role he resigned in 2021 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
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John Hepworth died of complications arising from motor neuron disease.