Ernest Kenneth Leslie OBE (14 May 1911 in Hitchin – 6 January 2010[1]) was an Australian Anglican bishop.
[4] He was ordained deacon in 1934 and priest in 1935 and was a curate at Holy Trinity, Coburg in Melbourne before becoming priest in charge at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.
He was Vice-Warden of St John's College, Morpeth from 1947 to 1952 and then Chaplain of Geelong Grammar School until his ordination to the episcopate in 1959.
[5] In 1971, he walked the 130 miles from Dubbo to Bathurst to raise money for the construction of a cathedral for his diocese, and he was thereafter known as "The Bishop who walked", which was used as the title for a biography written by his son Simon in 1985 (Bathurst NSW: Robert Brown & Assoc., 1985).
He retired in 1981, and was bestowed with an honorary doctorate from Charles Sturt University in 1996.