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'''Graham Richard Delbridge''' (22 May 1917 – 8 June 1980) was the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Gippsland in Australia from 1974 to 1980.<ref>[http://www.gippsanglican.org.au/history.html Diocesan history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913110406/http://www.gippsanglican.org.au/history.html |date=2009-09-13 }}</ref>

Delbridge was born on 22 May 1917. He was educated at Moore College.<ref>“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref>

He became Director of Youth Work in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney and held incumbencies at Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide,<ref>[http://www.trinitycity.church 1952–57 Church website (1)]</ref> and St Matthew's Manly.<ref>[http://www.stmattsmanly.org.au/index.php?v=Home, 1957–60 Church website (2)]{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

From 1963 he was an archdeacon and senior chaplain to the Primate of Australia,<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> and in 1969 he became a coadjutor bishop<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=109-mss_3&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives]</ref> in the Diocese of Sydney: he was consecrated a bishop on 8 April at St&nbsp;Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.<ref>[http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/SPSES257.htm Anglican Archives] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410114708/http://anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/SPSES257.htm |date=2013-04-10 }}</ref>

From 1973 he was a member of the Anglican-Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Commission, and he supported ecumenical endeavours in Australia.

On 8 June 1980 he and his 21-year-old daughter Judy were killed in a motoring accident near Sale.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110961597 |title=Bishop of Gippsland killed in car smash. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |location=ACT |date=10 June 1980 |accessdate=27 May 2015 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

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