{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Godfrey Noel Vose''' (23 December 1921 – 2 May 2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/vale-noel-vose/|title=Vale Baptist Statesman Dr Noel Vose (1921-2016)|website=The Gospel Coalition {{!}} Australia|date=3 May 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=30 December 2019}}</ref> was a Western Australian Baptist minister, the founding principal of Vose Seminary (formerly the Baptist Theological College of Western Australia) and the only Australian appointed as President of the Baptist World Alliance.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/51260370|title=Noel Vose : pastor, principal, president|last1=Moore|first1=Richard Kingsley|last2=Australia|first2=Baptist Historical Society of Western|date=2010|publisher=Perth [W.A.] : Baptist Historical Society of Western Australia|isbn=978-0-9805732-3-7|language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == {{short description|Australian baptist minister}} In 1963, Noel Vose became the Principal and sole staff member of the Baptist Theological College of Western Australia, a position that he held until 1991.
He was appointed President-General of the Baptist Union of Australia in 1975 and served until 1978.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-the-shoulders-of-giants-a-tribute-to-noel-vose/|title=On the shoulders of giants: A tribute to Noel Vose|date=2016-05-05|website=Brian Harris|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-12-30}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://springcms.s3.amazonaws.com/2015.baptistwa.asn.au/upload/the_advocate_2016_06.pdf|title=Noel Vose – a tribute|date=June 2016|work=The Advocate|publisher=Baptist Churches Western Australia|editor-last=Chapman|editor-first=Matt|location=Perth}}</ref>
In 1985, he became the first and only Australian appointed as President of the Baptist World Alliance, a role that he served in until 1990.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> Between 1989 and 1992, Vose led the Baptist World Alliance in theological dialogue with the Mennonite World Conference, marking a renewal of conversations between Baptists and Anabaptists that had ended amicably in approximately 1630.
In 1989, his achievements were recognised when he was made a Member of the Order of Australia.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
On 5 June 1990, his wife Heather Vose died unexpectedly during a visit to the United States.
Upon his retirement as principal in 1991 at 70 years old, Vose founded the Parkerville Baptist Church.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
In 2008, the Baptist Theological College of Western Australia was renamed Vose Seminary to honour the significant contributions of both Noel Vose, its founding principal, and his wife Heather Vose.<ref name=":1" />
In 2013, Vose published ''[https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/noel-vose/products/mena-daughter-of-obedience Mena: Daughter of Obedience]'',<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/208902523|title=Mena : daughter of obedience|last=Vose|first=Noel|date=2013|publisher=Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing|isbn=978-1-74258-486-7|edition=Paperback|language=en}}</ref> a biography about Filumena Weld, based upon the extensive research of his wife, Heather Vose, who died before it could be written.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bwanet.org/news/news-releases/563-former-bwa-president-noel-vose-has-died|title=Former BWA president Noel Vose has died|date=2 May 2016|website=Baptist World Alliance|access-date=31 December 2019}}</ref> Heather Vose did however provide the title of the biography.<ref name=":3" />
Noel Vose died on 2 May 2016 in Western Australia. He was 94 years old.
== Publications == Details of books written by Noel Vose: {| class="wikitable sortable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |ISBN ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Notes |- |Holy Scripture and Holy Spirit |1983 |{{ISBN|0647190184|}} | |- |Focus on faith : a glimpse of Baptist roots |1986 | | |- |If God so loved : studies in John 1 |1987 |{{ISBN|0949654272 |}} | |- |"[https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/noel-vose/products/mena-daughter-of-obedience Mena: Daughter of Obedience]" |2013 |{{ISBN|9781742584867|}} |No longer in print |- |}
== Awards and achievements ==
* 1989 – Member of the Order of Australia (AM)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
== References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vose, Noel}} Category:1921 births Category:2016 deaths Category:20th-century Australian Baptist ministers Category:Members of the Order of Australia Category:Seminary presidents Category:Founders of Australian schools and colleges Category:University and college founders