Peter Tasker

{{Short description|Anglican assistant bishop}}

{{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, Bishop of Georges River.[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 }}[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 }}

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.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}

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.[http://sydneyanglicans.net/news/tasker-back-in-georges-river Sydney Anglicans – Tasker back in Georges River] (Accessed 28 August 2013)