Warwick Bastian

Bastian was born in 1914 in Subiaco, Western Australia, to Thomas Albert Bastian and his wife Florence Gertrude (née Shaw).[1] Prior to ordination, he was secretary at the Big Bell Gold Mine in Cue, Western Australia (1935-1939).[2]

Bastian trained for ordination at St Barnabas College, Adelaide, obtaining the ThL from the Australian College of Theology in 1943.[3] He was ordained deacon in 1943 and priest in 1944.[4] He served his curacy at St Mark's, Bencubbin (1943-1944) and was then successively priest-in-charge of St John's, Kununoppin (1944-1946), curate at St John's, Fremantle (1946-1948), rector of Holy Trinity, York (1948-1954), priest-in-charge of St Thomas of Canterbury, Wyallagee (1954-1956), priest-in-charge of Kensington (1956-1957), and diocesan registrar of the Diocese of Perth (1959-1962).[5] Overlapping with some of these appointments, he was also chaplain to the Archbishop of Perth, Robert Moline (1951-1962).[6] He was then appointed as canon residentiary and sub-dean of St Boniface Cathedral in Bunbury and also archdeacon of Albany (1963-1966).[7] His last appointment before elevation to the episcopate was as archdeacon of Bunbury (1966-1968).[8]

In 1968, he was consecrated coadjutor bishop of Bunbury, with the title Bishop of Albany, in St Boniface Cathedral.[9] His see was St John's, Albany.[10] He retired in 1979, shortly before his death.[11] To date (2022), Bastian is the only appointment of a bishop of Albany.

Bastian was unmarried.[12] He died in 1979, aged 64, and was cremated at Karrakatta.[13] His archives are held in the J S Battye Library.[14]