Joseph John Booth CMG (26 May 1887 – 30 October 1965) was the 7th Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne.
Booth was educated at the University of Melbourne and ordained as a priest in 1914.
[1] His first position was as a chaplain to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force during World War I.
When peace came he became vicar of Fairfield, Victoria and later the Archdeacon of Dandenong before becoming a coadjutor bishop in the Melbourne diocese (with the courtesy title of "Bishop of Geelong"[2]) and often deputised for the archbishop, Frederick Waldegrave Head.
[5] Further wartime service with the Allied Invasion Forces[6] provided an unusual start to an episcopate.