Ian George

Ian Gordon Combe George AO (born 12 August 1934) was the third Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of South Australia from 1991 to 2004.

After an earlier career as a lawyer, he was ordained a priest in 1964. He held curacies at St Thomas's, Mamaroneck and St David's, Burnside; and was then priest in charge at St Barbara's, Woomera. After this he was a chaplain and lecturer in history at the University of Western Australia. He was Dean of Brisbane from 1973 to 1981 when he became Archdeacon of Canberra. In 1989, he was appointed an assistant bishop of the diocese and in 1991 was translated to Adelaide.

George ordained five women to the priesthood on 5 December 1992 at St Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide.