The Right Rev'd Mark Short, the Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn, is the new Primate – titular head – of the Anglican Church of Australia.
He is an alumnus of Moore Theological College and was elected as Bishop of Canberra in 2019. Before that, he served as National Director of the Bush Church Aid Society from 2011.
His election means that the head of the Australian Anglicans is once more an evangelical. Short has been involved in EFAC, the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion.
Bishop Short is the first non-Metropolitan bishop to become Primate of Australia – the first bishop not to be head of a Province (essentially a mainland state, containing three or more dioceses).
Before studying for the Ministry at Moore College, Short worked as a Graduate Economist for the Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations and as a Journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald. He is not the only ex-journalist to become an Anglican Bishop, but the first to be Primate. Short served in the parish of Temora, studied for a PhD at Durham University in the UK and then served as Rector at two parishes, Turvey Park and Tarcutta.