Overview
Sir Frank Woods KBE ChStJ (6 April 1907 – 29 November 1992) was an English-born Anglican bishop. From 1957 to 1977, he served as Archbishop of Melbourne. He was additionally the Primate of Australia between 1971 and 1977.
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Early life
Woods was born in 1907 in Davos, Switzerland. Woods was the son of the Right Reverend Edward Sydney Woods (1877-1953), Bishop of Lichfield, of the church of England, and Rachel Clemence Barclay. In 1914, the family moved back to England where his father became the army chaplain and vicar before consecration as bishop suffragan of Croydon in 1930, which then lead to being the bishop of Lichfield in 1937.
His siblings included his brother of the photographer Janet Woods, Samuel Woods, an archdeacon in New Zealand, and Robin Woods, Bishop of Worcester, and a nephew of Theodore Woods, who served as Bishop of Winchester.
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