Felix Arnott
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| birth_name = Felix Raymond Arnott
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Felix Raymond Arnott CMG, Th.D., M.A., B.A.[http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170035b.htm ADB online]{{Cite web |url=http://www.stpauls.edu.au/node/8427 |title=THE REVEREND FELIX RAYMOND ARNOTT MA THD | St Paul's College |access-date=28 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321081304/http://www.stpauls.edu.au/node/8427 |archive-date=21 March 2012 |url-status=dead }} (8 March 1911 – 27 July 1988) was an Australian Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane.{{Cite web |url=http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/arnott.htm |title=Anglican Archives website |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525091904/http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/arnott.htm |archive-date=25 May 2010 |url-status=dead }}
Early life and education
Career
Ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1934, his first post was a curacy in the parish of All Saints and St Mary, Elland (1934–38).Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 After that he was chaplain to the Bishop of Wakefield (1936–39), during which he was also Vice-Principal of Bishops' College, Cheshunt (1938–39)..Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 28. He was then Warden of St John's College, Brisbane (1939–46)..Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 28. From 1946 to 1963, he held a similar post at St. Paul's College, Sydney, where he was also a lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the University of Sydney. In 1963, he became coadjutor Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Melbourne: he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1963 at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.[http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/SPSES257.htm Anglican Archives] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410000000/http://www.anglicanarchives.org.au/HDMS-HTML/SPSES257.htm |date=10 April 2013 }} In 1970, he became Archbishop of Brisbane and Metropolitan of Queensland, posts he held for a decade. On retirement in 1980 he was then Honorary Chaplain in Venice for two years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1988_08_05_003|title=Church Times: "Dr. Felix Arnott", 5 August 1988, p 3|access-date=31 July 2021}}
He died on 27 July 1988, and was survived by his wife Anne.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1988_08_05_003|title=Church Times: "Dr. Felix Arnott", 5 August 1988, p 3|access-date=31 July 2021}}
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