William David Hair McCall
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William David Hair McCall (born 1940) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

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McCall was born into a distinguished family and educated at Sydney Grammar School
Sydney Grammar School
Sydney Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, selective, day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

. He studied for the priesthood at St Michael’s Crafers
Crafers, South Australia
The town of Crafers is located in the Adelaide Hills to the southeast of Adelaide, South Australia. Although technically considered to be an outer suburb of Adelaide, with many residents commuting to the city to work, locals consider Crafers to be more a suburb of the nearby township of Stirling.-...

 and was ordained in 1963. He served curacies
Curate
A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 at St Alban’s Griffith
Griffith, New South Wales
Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area. Like the Australian capital, Canberra and the nearby town of Leeton, Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin. Griffith was named after Sir Arthur Griffith the...

 and St Peter’s Broken Hill
Broken Hill, New South Wales
-Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...

. He was then priest-in-charge of Barellan
Barellan, New South Wales
Barellan is a small village in Narrandera Shire in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. On Census night 2006, Barellan had a population of 366 people...

-Weethalle
Weethalle
Weethalle is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The town is the Bland Shire Local government area and on the Mid-Western Highway, west of the state capital, Sydney, and north east of Griffith. At the 2006 census, Weethalle and the surrounding area had a population...

, Rector
Rector
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 of St John’s Corowa and (his last post before ordination to the episcopate) the incumbent
Vicar
In the broadest sense, a vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior . In this sense, the title is comparable to lieutenant...

 of St George’s Goodwood. In 1987 he became Bishop of Willochra
Anglican Diocese of Willochra
The Anglican Diocese of Willochra covers a large area of northern and western South Australia. The diocese was created from the Diocese of Adelaide in 1915. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul in Port Pirie...

 and in 2000 was translated
Translation (ecclesiastical)
Translation is the technical term when a Bishop is transferred from one diocese to another.This can be* From Suffragan Bishop status to Diocesan Bishop*From Coadjutor bishop to Diocesan Bishop*From one country's Episcopate to another...

 to the Diocese of Bunbury
Anglican Diocese of Bunbury
The Anglican Diocese of Bunbury is located in the south of Western Australia. The Bishop is the Right Reverend Allan Ewing, who was installed as bishop in July 2010.- External links :* *...

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