Phillip Aspinall

The Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall
Archbishop of Brisbane
Aspinall administering Holy Communion
Church	Anglican Church of Australia
In office	2002 to present
Other posts	Primate of Australia (2005–2014)
Orders
Ordination	25 July 1988 (deacon) 1989 (priest)
Consecration	2002
Personal details
Born	(1959-12-17) 17 December 1959 (age 57) Hobart, Australia
Spouse	Christa Aspinall
Alma mater	University of Tasmania Melbourne College of Divinity Trinity College, University of Melbourne Deakin University Monash University

Phillip Aspinall (born 17 December 1959) is an Australian Anglican bishop. He has been the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, since February 2002 and was the Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from July 2005 until he stood down on 4 July 2014. He succeeded Peter Hollingworth as Archbishop of Brisbane.

Aspinall was born in Hobart, Australia on 17 December 1959.

He holds degrees in science from the University of Tasmania, theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity through Trinity College (University of Melbourne) and the United Faculty of Theology, as well as a Master of Business Administration from Deakin University and a PhD in education from Monash University.

Aspinall has worked as a computer programmer for the Tasmanian Education Department. He has also worked in a number of roles in the Anglican Church in Tasmania and Victoria: with the Diocese of Tasmania as diocesan field officer for the Anglican Boys’ Society, the diocesan youth and education officer; deputy warden at Christ College in the University of Tasmania (1980 to 1984); director of parish education at St Stephen’s Church, Mount Waverley, in the Diocese of Melbourne (1985).

Aspinall was ordained a deacon in Tasmania on 25 July 1988 and a priest a year later. He served as assistant curate, assistant priest and parish priest in various locations in Tasmania including Claremont; and director of Anglicare Tasmania (1994–1998) including two years as Archdeacon for Church and Society.