He studied for the priesthood at St Michael's House in Crafers, South Australia and was ordained in 1963.
[11] McCall wrote "There is an appropriate balance of gender with the God-bearer being a woman (that was the only possibility) and the incarnate God being male.
Both male and female are thus honoured by God and both genders play an essential role in the work of salvation.
[12] Later, as Bishop of Bunbury in 2001 at the 12th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia, he seconded the motion of Muriel Porter to put a bill to the synod removing all the legal obstacles to the consecration of women to the episcopate (women bishops).
[13][14][15] He was married to Marion Carmel McCall, who is a pilot;[16][17] their eldest son, Theo D. McCall (also a priest), is chaplain of St Peter's College, Adelaide, and an adjunct lecturer at St Barnabas' College and Charles Sturt University.