Education
Stone was educated at Taylors College, Melbourne and ordained in 1963.
Stone was educated at Taylors College, Melbourne and ordained in 1963.
His first post was as a curate at Junee, after which he was priest in charge of Kameruka. He was rector of Kerang and then the Archdeacon of Bendigo. He was ordained to the episcopate as an assistant bishop in Tasmania before becoming Bishop of Rockhampton in 1996.
He retired from this position in 2003 and is currently the vicar-general in the Diocese of Bendigo.