Education
University of Sheffield. University of London. University of Sydney.
University of Sheffield. University of London. University of Sydney.
Nichols holds academic qualifications from the Universities of Sydney, London, Sheffield and Macquarie University. He was a Latin and history teacher until his ordination to the priesthood in 1963. He had curacies at Street Paul’s Chatswood and Street Bede’s Drummoyne.
He was a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Moore College, Sydney from 1968 to 1981 and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Satya Wacana Christian University until 1987.
A further academic appointment at Street Andrew’s Hall, Melbourne (a Church Mission Society training college) was followed by his ordination to the episcopate as the fifth Bishop of North West Australia, a position he held until 2003. Since then he has been Dean of Students and a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Trinity Theological College in Perth.