{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Portal|Christianity}} {{Infobox person | name = Felix Arnott | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Felix Raymond Arnott | birth_date = 8 March 1911 | birth_place = Ipswich, Suffolk | death_date = 27 July 1988 | death_place = Taigum, Brisbane | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Archbishop | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Felix Raymond Arnott''' CMG, Th.D., M.A., B.A.<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |volume=17 |year=2007 |title=Felix Raymond Arnott (1911–1988) |id2=arnott-felix-raymond-12150 |first=Jonathan |last=Holland |access-date=29 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stpauls.edu.au/node/8427 |title=THE REVEREND FELIX RAYMOND ARNOTT MA THD | St Paul's College |access-date=28 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321081304/http://www.stpauls.edu.au/node/8427 |archive-date=21 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (8 March 1911 – 27 July 1988) was an Australian Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/arnott.htm |title=Anglican Archives website |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525091904/http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/arnott.htm |archive-date=25 May 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life and education== He was born on 8 March 1911 and educated at Ipswich School and Keble College, Oxford.<ref>''Who was Who'' 1897-1990 (London, A & C Black, 1991) {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref>
==Career== Ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1934, his first post was a curacy in the parish of All Saints and St Mary, Elland (1934–38).<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941</ref> After that he was chaplain to the Bishop of Wakefield (1936–39), during which he was also Vice-Principal of Bishops' College, Cheshunt (1938–39).<ref>.''Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74'', 85th Edition, p 28.</ref> He was then Warden of St John's College, Brisbane (1939–46).<ref>.''Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74'', 85th Edition, p 28.</ref> From 1946 to 1963, he held a similar post at St. Paul's College, Sydney, where he was also a lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the University of Sydney. In 1963, he became coadjutor Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Melbourne: he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1963 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.<ref>[http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/SPSES257.htm Anglican Archives] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410000000/http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/SPSES257.htm |date=10 April 2013 }}</ref> In 1970, he became Archbishop of Brisbane and Metropolitan of Queensland, posts he held for a decade. On retirement in 1980 he was then Honorary Chaplain in Venice for two years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1988_08_05_003|title=''Church Times'': "Dr. Felix Arnott", 5 August 1988, p 3|access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
He died on 27 July 1988, and was survived by his wife Anne.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1988_08_05_003|title=''Church Times'': "Dr. Felix Arnott", 5 August 1988, p 3|access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}} {{S-start}} {{S-rel}} {{S-bef|before=Philip Strong}} {{S-ttl|title=Archbishop of Brisbane|years=1970–1980}} {{S-aft|after=John Grindrod}} {{S-end}} {{Archbishops of Brisbane}}
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