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About Donald Shearman
- Donald Norman Shearman (born 6 February 1926) is a former bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia.Shearman was educated at Orange High School.
- After World War II service with the Royal Australian Air Force he studied for the priesthood at St John’s Theological College, Morpeth.
- Ordained in 1950, his first post was a curacy at Dubbo.
- Later he was Warden of St John’s Hostel, Forbes then Rector of Coonabarabran.
- His last post before being ordained to the episcopate was as Archdeacon of Mildura.
- In 1963 he became Bishop of Rockhampton, (he was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1964 at St John's Cathedral (Brisbane)) a post he held for eight years.
- After two years as Chairman of the Australian Board of Missions he became Bishop of Grafton in 1973, serving until 1985.
- He resigned his holy orders in 2003 and was later defrocked.Shearman was the subject of a submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
- In 2007 Shearman's OBE that he was awarded in 1978 was revoked, following being defrocked for sexual assault
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