Neville James Chynoweth AM (3 October 1922 – 11 August 2011) was the seventh Bishop of Gippsland from 1980 to 1987. Chynoweth was educated at Manly High School, Moore Theological College (ThL (Hons) in 1949 and a BD in 1969) and the University of Sydney, where he received an MA (1957). He was ordained in 1950, serving a curacy at St Michael's Sydney, Rector of Kangaroo Valley (1951–52) and then a chaplain of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. From 1954 to 1963 he was Rector of St John's Dee Why and then, from 1963 to 1966, St Anne's Strathfield. In 1966 his ministry took him to Canberra, where he was Rector of All Saints Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory (1966–71) and then St Paul's, Manuka (1971–74). He was appointed archdeacon in 1973.