Tom Brown (bishop of Wellington)

Thomas John Brown (born 16 August 1943) is a retired Anglican bishop in New Zealand.

[1] On 29 July 2011, Brown announced, with the support of the Primate, that he would retire in March 2012, effectively completing his duties at the end of February 2012.

He retired as Bishop of Wellington during an evening service on 26 February 2012, which had the Anglican Primate of Australia, who is also the Archbishop of Brisbane, in attendance along with Archbishop David Moxon, the Primate of New Zealand.

[3] After curacies at St Matthew's in Christchurch, New Zealand, and St James the Greater, Leicester, England,[4] he returned to New Zealand to become the vicar of Upper Clutha in 1976.

[6] After his retirement, Brown voluntarily gave up his right to officiate as a priest after he split with his wife and then began a relationship with the chaplain of Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, Kate Carey-Smith, who was married to Chris Carey-Smith, the chaplain at St Mark's Church School, both being priests of the Anglican Diocese of Wellington.