Clyde Wood

Wood was educated at Monash University^[1] and ordained in 1965.^[2] His first ordained ministry position was as a curate of St John's Bentleigh. From 1966 he was curate-in-charge of St Paul's Ringwood. He then held positions at St Philip's Mount Waverley^[3] and St Christopher's Armadale, all parishes in Melbourne. In 1978 he became Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Darwin,^[4] and in 1983 he became the second Bishop of the Northern Territory,^[5] a position he held until 1992. For four years he was an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Brisbane and in 1996 he was elected diocesan BishopofNorth Queensland^[6] and installed there on 12 October 1996.^[7] He retired in 2002. He is married to Margaret Wood.^[8]