Oliver Heyward

Oliver Spencer Heyward  (16 March 1926 – 15 December 2003) was an Australian Anglican bishop: the sixth Bishop of Bendigo from 1975 to 1991; and the Assistant to the Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from 1991 to 1995.

He was born in Launceston, Tasmania and educated at Launceston Church Grammar School. He was in the RAAF from 1944 to 1946 when he entered the University of Tasmania. In 1949 he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oriel College, Oxford. He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1954 and began his career with a curacy at St Peter, Brighton, England. Returning to Tasmania he held incumbencies at Sorrell and Richmond. After this he was Precentor at the island's cathedral then Warden of Christ College, University of Tasmania until his elevation to the Episcopate. He was consecrated in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne on 1 February 1975.