Assistant clergyChrist Church has been home to a wide variety of clergy in many roles: as occasional and regular visitors; and on the staff as assistant priests and honorary assistants. The following is only a small selection of the assistant priests of Christ Church.
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| Gerard Trower and his curates, c 1896
Pictured (from left to right) are the Rector, Gerard Trower and his two curates, Frederick John Albery (later Rector, 1901-1910) and Charles Sidney Smith (died 1900) | Stephen O’Breznan Ball
Father Ball was curate to Father Albery, 1909-1910. | 
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| Seering John Matthews
Father Matthews was John Hope’s curate, 1926-1929. He became Bishop of Carpentaria in 1960. | Charles William Whonsbon-Aston
Sometimes referred to as “Whizz-Bang”, Father Aston was John Hope’s curate, 1929-1931. He served in the mission fields and was later Archdeacon of Fiji and Archdeacon of Polynesia in the 1960s. | 
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| Theodore Bruce McCall
Father McCall was curate to John Hope in 1949-1951. He later became Bishop of Rockhampton in 1959 and translated to Wangaratta in 1963. | E W Bradley
Father Bradley was a long-serving assistant to Father Hope from 1931 until 1943. | 
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| Edgar Wood, c 1955
Father Wood was John Hope’s curate in 1953-1956. He is pictured here repairing the roof of Christ Church. | Clergy and sub deacons at the
30th anniversary of Father Austin Day’s induction, 1994
Pictured are Bishop David Hand, Bishop John Reid (South Sydney); Assistant Priests: Donald Cornelius, Graeme Kaines, John Parton; Assisting clergy: James Murray, Michael Giffin, John Spooner, Victor Pringle, Nathan Ingen and many others. |  |  | Gordon Holroyd, SSM, 2000
Father Gordon, pictured here at St Wilfrid’s, Harrogate in 2000, was assistant priest 1995-1997, including a term as acting Rector in 1996. | Graeme Napier, 2002
Father Graeme was assistant priest 1998-2002, including a term as acting Rector in 2000-2001. | | | | | | |
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