# Peter Tasker

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{{for|the British general practitioner|Peter William Gedge Tasker}}
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'''Peter Tasker''' is a former [assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney](/source/Assistant_bishops_in_the_Diocese_of_Sydney), [Bishop of Georges River](/source/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](/source/Moore_Theological_College) and [ordained](/source/ordained) in 1964. After [curacies](/source/Curate) in [Wollongong](/source/Wollongong), [Chatswood](/source/Chatswood%2C_New_South_Wales) and [Engadine](/source/Engadine%2C_New_South_Wales) he was [Vicar](/source/Vicar) of St George's [Penang](/source/Penang) in [Malaya](/source/Peninsular_Malaysia) from 1970.<ref>''[Crockford's Clerical Directory](/source/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-bef|before=[Ray Smith](/source/Ray_Smith_(bishop))}}
{{S-ttl|title=[Bishop of South Western Sydney](/source/Assistant_bishops_in_the_Diocese_of_Sydney)<br/><small>(as Bishop of Liverpool)</small>|years=2001–2009}}
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{{S-ttl|title=[Bishop for International Relations (Anglican Diocese of Sydney)](/source/Assistant_bishops_in_the_Diocese_of_Sydney)|years=2009–2019}}
{{S-aft|after=[Malcolm Richards](/source/Malcolm_Richards)}}
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{{S-ttl|title=[Bishop of South Western Sydney](/source/Assistant_bishops_in_the_Diocese_of_Sydney)<br/><small>(as Acting Bishop of Georges River)</small>|years=2013–2014}}
{{S-aft|after=[Peter Lin](/source/Peter_Lin_(bishop))}}
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