Joseph Booth (bishop)

Joseph John Booth CMG (26 May 1887 – 30 October 1965) was the 7th Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne.

Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral

Booth was educated at the University of Melbourne and ordained as a priest in 1914.^[1] His first position was as a chaplain to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force during World War I. When peace came he became vicar of Fairfield, Victoria and later the Archdeacon of Dandenong before becoming a coadjutor bishop in the Melbourne diocese (with the courtesy title of "Bishop of Geelong"^[2]) and often deputised for the archbishop, Frederick Waldegrave Head.^[3] In 1936 he additionally became Archdeacon of Melbourne.^[4] Booth became the archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne in 1942.^[5] Further wartime service with the Allied Invasion Forces^[6] provided an unusual start to an episcopate. He retired in 1957.

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