Education
Kerle was educated at the University of Sydney and ordained in 1939.
Kerle was educated at the University of Sydney and ordained in 1939.
His first positions were curacies at Street Paul’s Sydney and Street Anne"s Ryde. He then held incumbencies in Kangaroo Valley and Portuguese Kembla. Later he was General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Church Missionary Society and then Archdeacon of Cumberland.
From 1956 to 1965 he was Bishop Company-adjutor of Sydney when he became Bishop of Armidale, a position he held for 11 years.
His final position until his retirement in 1982 was as Rector of Street Swithun’s Pymble.