Arthur Malcolm

{{Short description|Australian bishop (1934–2022)}}

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Alistair Arthur Malcolm (1934 – 29 July 2022) was the first Aboriginal bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia, licensed as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of North Queensland.[http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/facilities/libraries/resources/Documents/L2%20Loos%20Transcript.pdf Loss, Noel. The History of North Queensland in Black and White: A Personal Retrospective] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927081540/http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/facilities/libraries/resources/Documents/L2%20Loos%20Transcript.pdf |date=September 27, 2013 }}

Born in Yarrabah, Queensland, and ordained a priest in 1978, Malcolm was consecrated on 12 October 1985 at Townsville{{cite web |url=http://anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/PHOTS192.htm#PHOT06364 |title=Archived copy |website=anglicanarchives.org.au |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409162722/http://anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/PHOTS192.htm#PHOT06364 |archive-date=9 April 2013 |url-status=dead}} and served as bishop to the Indigenous peoples of northern Queensland until his retirement in 2000.[https://books.google.com/books?id=0KFveKCgA8sC&pg=PA130 Prentis, Malcolm D. A Concise Companion to Aboriginal History] (Google Books) p. 130 (Accessed 25 September 2013)

Malcolm and his wife Colleen wrote the Prayer for Reconciliation in A Prayer Book for Australia (1995).{{Cite web|url=https://www.abmission.org/prayers-for-reconciliation/|title=ABM: Prayers for Reconciliation|access-date=2 August 2022}}

Malcolm died on 29 July 2022 in Edmonton, Cairns, at the age of 87.{{Cite web|url=https://sydneyanglicans.net/news/australia-loses-indigenous-christian-pioneer/52492|title=Sydney Anglicans: Australia loses Indigenous Christian pioneer|access-date=2 August 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.mytributes.com.au/notice/death-notices/malcolm-alistair-arthur-bishop-arthur-malcolm/5958212/|title=Malcolm, Alistair Arthur}}