Peter Tasker

{{Short description|Anglican assistant bishop}} {{for|the British general practitioner|Peter William Gedge Tasker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Peter Tasker''' is a former assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Bishop of Georges River.<ref>[http://www.laurieferguson.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/reid-report-2009-january.pdf Photo of Bishop Peter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706105749/http://www.laurieferguson.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/reid-report-2009-january.pdf |date=2011-07-06 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/bishop_tasker Sydney Anglicans] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120915051928/http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/archive/bishop_tasker |date=2012-09-15 }}</ref>

Tasker was educated at Moore Theological College and ordained in 1964. After curacies in Wollongong, Chatswood and Engadine he was Vicar of St George's Penang in Malaya from 1970.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref>

Tasker retired in 2009, but was acting bishop of Georges River from June 2013 to May 2015, when there was neither assistant bishop nor archdeacon, owing to funding problems.<ref>[http://sydneyanglicans.net/news/tasker-back-in-georges-river Sydney Anglicans – Tasker back in Georges River] (Accessed 28 August 2013)</ref>

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{{S-start}} {{S-rel|ac}} {{S-bef|before=Ray Smith}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop of South Western Sydney (as Bishop of Liverpool)|years=2001–2009}} {{S-aft|after=''left vacant''}} {{S-new}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop for International Relations (Anglican Diocese of Sydney)|years=2009–2019}} {{S-aft|after=Malcolm Richards}} {{S-bef|before=''left vacant''}} {{S-ttl|title=Bishop of South Western Sydney (as Acting Bishop of Georges River)|years=2013–2014}} {{S-aft|after=Peter Lin}} {{S-end}}

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