Monday, 23 January 2012RCW Honorary member, Bishop Tom Brown, will be the focus of a formal farewell service in Wellington Cathedral on Sunday 26 February at 4 p.m.
Bishop Tom and his wife Dwylis have been great supporters of the Rotary Club and have been frequent participants in club activities.
His Wikipedia entry reads as follows:
Thomas John Brown (born 16 August 1943) is an Anglican bishop in New Zealand. He is currently the Bishop of Wellington.[1]
Brown was educated at the University of Otago[2] in New Zealand and ordained in 1972.[3] After curacies at St Matthew's in Christchurch, New Zealand, and St James the Greater in Leicester, England, [4] he returned to New Zealand to become the vicar of Upper Clutha in 1976. After further incumbencies at Roslyn and Lower Hutt he became the Archdeacon of Belmont in 1987. In 1991 he became the assistant bishop and the vicar general in the Diocese of Wellington and, seven years later, its diocesan bishop.[5]
In August 2010, Brown created a Second Life account and joined the online virtual Epiphany Cathedral. The virtual cathedral had been established, with Brown's support, by a priest ordained by him some years before. Plans for Brown to preach as a bishop in the virtual cathedral were announced at the same time.[6]