Reverend  James Stuart Udy OAM

Order of Australia

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 (30 September 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Australian Uniting Church

Uniting Church in Australia

The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union....

 minister, Master of Wesley College, University of Sydney

Wesley College, University of Sydney

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, author and President of the World Methodist Historical Society during the 1980s. (1977-1983).

Early life and education

Udy was a Methodist minister, and one of three brothers who became ministers of religion. Gloster Udy was his older brother, and Richard Udy was his younger brother. James attended Newington College

Newington College

Newington College is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 (1930), North Sydney Boys High School

North Sydney Boys High School

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, Maitland High School

Maitland High School

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, University of Sydney and Harvard University

Harvard University

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. Jim Married Anne Benua after meeting on an Australian boat tour that he took. Together they had six children.

Military chaplain

Udy offered himself for service as a chaplain immediately after his ordination at Melbourne in January 1945. After his arrival on the island of Morotai

Morotai

Morotai Island Regency is a regency of North Maluku province, Indonesia, located on Morotai Island. The population was 54,876 in 2007.-History:...

with an engineer unit, he organised the construction of a chapel, which was dedicated on 25 July. Shortly afterwards, Udy was posted to 2/26 Supply Depot Company on the island of Labuan, where, after the Japanese surrender, another chapel (built to the same plans as the first) was constructed by 2/14 Works Unit. During this period, Chaplain Udy worked extensively with repatriated Prisoners of War, and with their Japanese former captors.

Publications

• Paul: A Conflux of Streams (Syd, 1956)
• Campus Marks of Christian Presence (Syd, 1968)
• Living Stones (Syd, 1974)
• Dig or Die (Syd, 1980)
• Christians and Churches in Socialist Countries (Syd, 1982)
• Church Union in Australia (Syd, 1983)
• A Pride Of Lions (Syd, 1990)
• One More Challenge (Syd, 2001)