{{Short description|Australian Anglican bishop (1935–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|size=100%|RRevd}} | name = Brian Kyme | title = Assistant bishop, Anglican Diocese of Perth | image = | alt = | caption = | church = Anglican Church of Australia | diocese = Perth | term = 1982–1999 | other_post = <!-- Orders --> | ordination = 1958 (as deacon)<br />1960 (as priest) | ordinated_by = | consecration = 1 May 1982<ref name="Cathedral" /> | consecrated_by = Peter Carnley | rank = <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1935|6|22}} | birth_place = | denomination = Anglican | spouse = Doreen<ref name="Obituary" /> | children = 2<ref name="Obituary" /> | alma_mater = Ridley College, Melbourne | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2020|4|16|1935|6|22}} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia }} '''Brian Robert Kyme '''(22 June 1935 – 16 April 2020)<ref name="deathnotice">{{cite web |title=KYME Brian |url=https://www.westannouncements.com.au/browse/obituaries/view/kyme-brian |website=The West Australian |accessdate=2 May 2020}}</ref> was an Australian Anglican bishop, National Director of the Australian Board of Missions, and author.
Kyme trained for the priesthood at Ridley College, Melbourne and was ordained in 1958. Later he studied at Edith Cowan University.<ref>'Six Archbishops and their ordinands : a study of the leadership provided by successive Archbishops of Perth in the recruitment and formation of clergy in Western Australia 1914-2005' Kyme, B p69: Perth, WA; Edith Cowan University; 2005</ref> He served curacies in Malvern and Morwell. He was the Incumbent at St Matthew's Church, Ashburton from 1963 to 1969 and Dean of Geraldton from 1969 to 1974. He was then at Claremont, Western Australia from 1974 and Archdeacon of Stirling, WA from 1977. In 1982 he became Assistant Bishop of Perth,<ref name="Cathedral">{{Cite web|url=https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/ephemera/pr3707ord.pdf|title=St George's Cathedral, Perth Orders of Service|last=|first=|date=2018|website=J.S. Battye Library of West Australian History Collection|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426032440/https://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/ephemera/pr3707ord.pdf|archive-date=26 April 2020|access-date=}}</ref> serving until 1999.
From 1993 to 2000 he served as National Director of the Australian Board of Missions.<ref name="Obituary">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abmission.org/data/News/2020/The_Rt_Rev_Brian_Kyme_Obituary.pdf|title=The Rt Rev Brian Kyme.|last=|first=|date=2020|website=Australian Board of Missions|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426033714/https://www.abmission.org/data/News/2020/The_Rt_Rev_Brian_Kyme_Obituary.pdf|archive-date=26 April 2020|access-date=}}</ref>
Kyme died on 16 April 2020 from cancer.<ref>{{cite news |title=RIP Bishop Brian Kyme (1935-2020) |url=https://www.abmission.org/news.php/510/rip-bishop-brian-kyme-1935-2020 |accessdate=26 April 2020 |work=Anglican Board of Mission |publisher=Anglican Board of Mission - Australia |date=17 April 2020}}</ref>
== Bibliography == Bishop Kyme wrote a number of books on history of Anglican church organisations and schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/book/result?c=book&q=creator:%22Kyme,+Brian%22|title=Trove search results for 'creator:"Kyme, Brian"' - Books|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}}</ref>
* ''Do this in remembrance of me!: a communion handbook for the reflective Christian'', 1985 with Brian Haig * ''Grit & grace: the story of the Anglican Board of Mission - Australia'', 2013, with Jan Carroll * ''John Septimus Roe: the man and the school named in his honour,'' 2010 * ''Six archbishops and their ordinands: a study of the leadership provided by successive Archbishops of Perth in their recruitment and formation of clergy in Western Australia, 1914-2005'' [thesis], 2005 * ''The Wollaston legacy'', 2007, with Edward Doncaster and Jan Carroll
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{{Deans of Geraldton}} {{Archdeacons of Stirling, WA}} {{Assistant bishops in the Diocese of Perth}}
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