Hilton Deakin

{{Short description|Australian Roman Catholic prelate (1932–2022)}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend

| name = Hilton Deakin

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| appointed = 30 December 1992

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| other_post = Titular Bishop of Murthlacum (1992–2022)

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| ordination = 27 July 1958

| ordained_by = Justin Daniel Simonds

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1932|11|13}}

| birth_place = Seymour, Victoria, Australia

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Hilton Forrest Deakin AM (13 November 1932 – 28 September 2022) was an Australian Roman Catholic prelate.

Born in Seymour, Victoria,{{cite web|url=https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/STAT.0768.001.0001_R.pdf|via=Australian Government|publisher=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse|title=Witness Statement – Hilton Forrest Deakin|access-date=29 September 2022}} Deakin was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in 1958. He served as titular bishop of Murthlacum and as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Melbourne from 1993 until his death in 2022.{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdeakin.html |title=Bishop Hilton Forrest Deakin|publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|access-date=29 September 2022}}

He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2003 Australia Day Honours "for service to the international community, particularly through the Catholic aid agency, Caritas Australia, and to the people of East Timor."{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240485906|title=Australia Day 2003 Honours |date=26 January 2003|work=Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special (National : 1977 - 2012)|access-date=24 July 2023|pages=6}}