1. Phillip John Aspinall was born on 17 December 1959 and is an Australian Anglican bishop who served as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane from February 2002 until December 2022, and was the Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from July 2005 until he stood down on 4 July 2014.
Phillip Aspinall obtained a BSc degree from the University of Tasmania in 1980, a Graduate Diploma in Religious Education from Brisbane College of Advanced Education, a BD degree with Honours from Melbourne College of Divinity in 1988, an MBA from Deakin University and a PhD degree in education from Monash University.
Phillip Aspinall worked as a computer programmer for the Tasmanian Education Department.
Phillip Aspinall has worked in a number of roles in the Anglican Church in Tasmania and Victoria: with the Diocese of Tasmania as diocesan field officer for the Anglican Boys' Society, the diocesan youth and education officer; deputy warden at Christ College in the University of Tasmania ; director of parish education at St Stephen's Church, Mount Waverley, in the Diocese of Melbourne.
Phillip Aspinall was ordained a deacon in Tasmania on 25 July 1987 and a priest two years later.
Phillip Aspinall served as assistant curate, assistant priest and parish priest in various locations in Tasmania including Claremont.
Phillip Aspinall was director of Anglicare Tasmania was Archdeacon for Church and Society for two years.
Phillip Aspinall was consecrated as a bishop on 29 June 1999 in Adelaide where he served as an assistant bishop until December 2001.
Phillip Aspinall denied that he was in any way involved with the circumstances of the alleged abuse.
In terms of social justice issues, Phillip Aspinall has spoken out against the ill-treatment of asylum seekers.
Phillip Aspinall has initiated ventures to allow parishioners to tithe via direct debit and leave their estates to the diocese by distributing information about creating wills that favour the diocese.
Between the retirement of Philip Freier on 31 March 2020 and the election of Geoffrey Smith on 7 April 2020, Phillip Aspinall served as interim primate.
Phillip Aspinall is married to Christa Phillip Aspinall with whom he has two children.