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Tom Frame

Director of St Mark's National Theological Centre
Professor of Theology
Bishop
BA NSW, DipEd Melb, ThDip Australian Coll Theol, MTh Syd Coll Divinity, MA (Hons) Kent, PhD NSW

Tom Frame
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Bishop Tom Frame was born at Sydney in 1962. He joined the RAN College, HMAS Creswell, as a 16-year old cadet midshipman in January 1979. After serving as Research Officer to the Chief of Naval Staff and completing a PhD on the HMAS Voyager disaster, he resigned from the RAN in late 1992 to complete a Masters degree in theology and training for the Anglican priesthood. Ordained in 1993, he held parish appointments in Australia and England. He was Bishop to the Australian Defence Force from 2001-07, a Visiting Fellow in the School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University (1999-2003) and Patron of the Armed Forces Federation of Australia (2002-06). He has been a member of the Council of the Australian War Memorial since 2004.

Bishop Frame is the author or editor of twenty three books including The Life and Death of Harold Holt, A Church for a Nation: A History of the Diocese of Canberra & Goulburn; Church and State: Australia’s Imaginary Wall; Anglicanism in Australia: A History (edited with Bruce Kaye, Colin Holden and Geoffrey Treloar) and Agendas for Australian Anglicanism: Essays in Honour of Bruce Kaye (edited with Geoffrey Treloar). He has been Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre, Associate Professor and Head of the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University since January 2007. Bishop Frame is married to Helen and lives in Canberra.

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