{{Short description|British-born Australian Anglican bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|size=100%|RRevd}} | name = Peter Stuart | title = Bishop of Newcastle | image = | alt = | caption = | church = Anglican Church of Australia | diocese = Newcastle | term_start = 2 February 2018<ref name="McCarthy" /> | other_post = Assistant bishop, Diocese of Newcastle (2009–2018) <!-- Orders --> | ordination = 1989 (as deacon)<br />1990 (as priest) | ordinated_by = | consecration = 2 February 2009 | consecrated_by = Peter Jensen | rank = <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}}<ref name="ADON Bishops">{{cite web |title=Bishops |url=https://www.newcastleanglican.org.au/our-diocese/bishop/ |website=Anglican Diocese of Newcastle |publisher=Anglican Diocese of Newcastle |accessdate=18 April 2020}}</ref> | birth_place = England<ref name="ADON Bishops" /> | nationality = British, Australian | religion = Anglican | spouse = Nicki<ref name="ADON Bishops" /> | children = 2<ref name="ADON Bishops" /> | alma_mater = University of Tasmania (B. Comm)<br />Melbourne College of Divinity (B. Div)<br />University of Technology, Sydney (M. Management)<br />Flinders University (D. Education)<ref name="ADON Bishops" /> | death_date = | death_place = }}'''Peter Derrick James Stuart'''<ref>{{cite web |title=BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE |url=https://www.newcastleanglican.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Section-1-1.4-Brief-History-of-the-Diocese.pdf |website=Anglican Diocese of Newcastle |publisher=Anglican Diocese of Newcastle |access-date=5 March 2021 |page=4}}</ref> (born 1963) is a British-born Anglican bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He has served as the bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle since 2 February 2018. He previously served as an assistant bishop in the diocese from 2009 to 2018.<ref name="ADON Bishops" />

Stuart has generated attention within the Anglican Church of Australia for his social justice activism. He supported the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW.<ref> [https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/newcastle-breakfast/bishop-stuart-on-abortion/11386986} https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/newcastle-breakfast/bishop-stuart-on-abortion/11386986] </ref> He actively supported the LGBTIQA+ community in campaigns calling for an end to conversion practices.<ref> https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/8089481/no-threat-to-churches-hunter-bishop-backs-conversion-therapy-ban/ </ref> The Newcastle Diocese supports the blessing of people in same-sex marriages<ref> https://virtueonline.org/australia-bishop-newcastle-defiantly-approves-same-sex-blessings </ref>

Following the retirement of Brian Farran on 15 December 2012, until the installation Bishop Greg Thompson on 2 February 2014,<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/2061418/new-anglican-bishop-promises-justice-compassion/ |newspaper=The Newcastle Herald |title=New Anglican bishop promises justice, compassion |first=Sam |last=Rigney |date=2 February 2014}}</ref> Stuart administered the diocese.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.newcastleanglican.org.au/page16008/Bishop-Administrator.aspx |title=Anglican Diocese Newcastle - Bishop Administrator |access-date=2013-10-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131012015206/http://www.newcastleanglican.org.au/page16008/Bishop-Administrator.aspx |archive-date=2013-10-12 }}</ref> He resumed administration of the diocese on 1 December 2016 prior to Thompson's resignation as bishop on 31 May 2017 due to bullying.<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/4533697/newcastle-anglican-bishop-greg-thompson-resigns/ |title=Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson resigns |last=McCarthy|first=Joanne|date=2017-03-16 |work=Newcastle Herald |access-date=2017-05-15 |language=en }}</ref> He was elected as the Bishop of Newcastle by the diocesan synod on 25 November 2017 and was installed on 2 February 2018.<ref name="McCarthy">{{cite news |newspaper=The Newcastle Herald |url = https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/5084203/hunter-could-have-a-woman-bishop-in-2018-says-new-anglican-leader/ |first=Joanne |last=McCarthy |title=Newly-elected Newcastle Anglican Bishop Peter Stuart a 'passionate supporter' of women in ministry |date=28 November 2017 }}</ref>

Stuart was born in England in 1963, emigrating to Australia in 1971. He is a graduate of the University of Tasmania, the Melbourne College of Divinity (entering Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne in 1987), the University of Technology in Sydney and Flinders University.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.newcastleanglican.org.au/page16008/Bishop-Administrator.aspx |title=The Right Reverend Dr Peter Stuart |access-date=2013-10-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131012015206/http://www.newcastleanglican.org.au/page16008/Bishop-Administrator.aspx |archive-date=2013-10-12 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/490598/new-assistant-bishop-appointed-for-newcastle/ |newspaper=The Newcastle Herald |title=New assistant bishop appointed for Newcastle |date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> He was ordained deacon in 1989 and priest in 1990 in the Diocese of Tasmania. He served as principal of St Barnabas College, Adelaide from 2002 to 2009.<ref name="ADON Bishops" /> He was consecrated as a bishop on 2 February 2009 by Archbishop Peter Jensen at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.

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