Frank Woods (bishop)

Sir Frank Woods KBE ChStJ (6 April 1907 – 29 November 1992) was an Australian Anglican bishop.

He was the son of the Right Reverend Edward Sydney Woods (1877-1953), Bishop of Lichfield in the Church of England, and Rachel Clemence Barclay.

[1] Woods was ordained as a priest in 1932,[3] After a curacy at St Mary's Church, Portsea, in the Diocese of Portsmouth he became chaplain of his Cambridge alma mater, Trinity College.

During the Second World War, he served as a chaplain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and then, successively, a vicar in Huddersfield (1945–52); Suffragan Bishop of Middleton (1952–57);[5] and, in 1957, Archbishop of Melbourne for over 20 years.

[citation needed] Woods was appointed, on 3 June 1972, a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).