Education
He was educated at Christchurch Boys" High School and Auckland College of Education after which he worked as a teacher until studying for the Priesthood.
He was educated at Christchurch Boys" High School and Auckland College of Education after which he worked as a teacher until studying for the Priesthood.
He was the 9th Anglican Bishop of Nelson, from 1990 to 2006. He was ordained in 1971 and after a curacy at Street Luke’s, Bristol he was Vicar of Tunis. Later he was Provost of All Saint’s Cathedral, Cairo and held incumbencies at Bishopdale and (his last appointment before elevation to the Episcopate) Redcliffs.
After 16 years as Bishop of Nelson, Eaton returned to Africa to become assistant bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Egypt.