Ray Smith (bishop)


Raymond George Smith is a retired Anglican bishop. He was an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. He was the Bishop of Georges River from 1993 to 2001.
Smith was educated at the Australian College of Theology and ordained in 1959. He was a priest in the Diocese of Armidale from 1959 to 1986 and became an archdeacon. He was then the Director of Extension Ministries at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania in the United States until 1990 when he returned to Australia to be the Archdeacon of South Canberra, his last position before being ordained to the episcopate. He is married to Shirley Smith.