Rhys Bezzant

Rhys is the Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, where he joined the Faculty in 2004, after working for some years as an Anglican Chaplain amongst tertiary students at Latrobe University and then at the University of Melbourne.

He studied German at the Universities of Melbourne and Cologne, taking out an MA, before commencing theological studies at Ridley where he gained his MTh on Austrian revivals of the eighteenth century.

Rhys's doctoral thesis investigated the ecclesiology of Jonathan Edwards. He has been a Visiting Fellow in the Yale Divinity School, and leads the Jonathan Edwards Center for Australia, housed at Ridley, which sponsors the study of evangelical history, and the texts and thought of Edwards. Rhys counts amongst his other heroes Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Billy Graham. He also serves on the General Synod Liturgy Commission and the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia, and is a passionate advocate for the importance of church done well. He is Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.

Rhys describes himself as a seriously serious coffee drinker, a lover of all things German, and is rejuvenated by hiking in Tasmania. His chief form of exercise is swimming, and looks forward one day to having a dog to take on walks to meet the neighbours. Travel is a besetting sin, which he repents of from time to time after returning from holidays.