Ian Lambert

Ian Keese Lambert is an Australian Anglican bishop and former military officer, who served as an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn from 2012 to 2013, and as Bishop to the Australian Defence Force from 2013 to 2019. Early life, military career and parish ministry Lambert grew up in Canberra, where he attended Telopea Park High School and St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Forrest. After high school, Lambert attended the Royal Military College Duntroon, where he graduated in 1976 as a lieutenant in the Royal Australian Corps of Transport. He later attended the Royal Navy Staff College at HMAS Penguin in 1989. While still in the military, Lambert commenced theological studies at St Mark's National Theological Centre initially on a part-time basis, and later was discharged from the military with the rank of major to complete his studies full-time. He was ordained deacon in the Anglican Church of Australia, and later was ordained priest by Bishop George Browning, on 30 November 1995.