Tony Nichols

Anthony Howard Nichols was an Australian Anglican bishop.
Nichols obtained academic qualifications from the Universities of Sydney, London, Sheffield and Macquarie University. He was a Latin and history teacher until his ordination to the priesthood in 1963. He had curacies at St Paul's Chatswood and St Bede's Drummoyne. He was a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Moore College, Sydney from 1968 to 1981 and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Satya Wacana Christian University until 1987. A further academic appointment at St Andrew's Hall, Melbourne was followed by his ordination to the episcopate as the fifth Anglican Diocese of [North West Australia|Bishop of North West Australia] in 1992, a position he held until 2003.
After retiring as Bishop of North West Australia, he was Dean of Students and a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Trinity Theological College in Perth and later worked as an Assistant Minister at Dalkeith Anglican Church.
Nichols was married to Judith. His son-in-law, Darrell Parker, became Bishop of North West Australia in 2023.
Nichols died on 24 August 2019, aged 81.