Ernest Eric Hawkey (1 June 1909 – 25 July 1986) was the sixth Bishop of Carpentaria, Australia, from 1968 to 1974.
[1] He was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney[2] and ordained deacon in 1933 and priest in 1936.
From 1947 to 1968 he was Secretary of the Australian Board of Missions and from 1962 a Canon Residentiary at St John's Cathedral, Brisbane.
[5] He was consecrated a bishop on 23 April 1968 at St John's Cathedral (Brisbane).
[6] In 1970 he ordinaed the first Aborigine to become a priest, Patrick Brisbane.