James Housden

James Alan George Housden (16 September 1904 – 22 April 1994) was the fifth Anglican Bishop of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, serving from 1947 to 1958.

[2] Housden was born in Birmingham[3][4] and educated at Essendon High School and the University of Queensland before being ordained in 1929.

[5] His first position was as a curate at St Paul's Ipswich, Queensland after which he was chaplain of the Mitchell River Mission.

From 1940 to 1946 he was the Rural Dean of Warwick and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) vicar of Christ Church, South Yarra.

[8][9] In 1958, Housden translated from Rockhampton to Newcastle where he was enthroned on 21 November 1958, where he remained until his retirement due to poor health in 1972.