A former Shoalhaven City Council engineer who spends his holidays in a caravan at Bulli Beach has been named Wollongong's next Anglican bishop.Reverend Canon Peter Lindsay Hayward was endorsed by the Standing Committee of the Sydney Diocese on Monday night after being hand-picked for the role by Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen.He is expected to start in the new role in April, when outgoing bishop Alan Stewart moves to Sydney to head up a Sydney Diocese church expansion program."I don't see this as a promotion," Canon Hayward said."It is the same sort of ministry and just on a different scale."Canon Hayward has been the rector of St Bede's Church in Beverley Hills since 2001 but the move to Wollongong will be almost like coming home for the 50-year-old."I moved to Nowra when I was nine and spent 20 years there," he said."I went to school in Bomaderry and was a council engineer at Shoalhaven City Council for five years. I still have family connections on the South Coast."He has also been enjoying family holidays at Bulli Beach Tourist Park for the past six years."It is like a little bit of paradise. The South Coast is really very familiar territory for me," he said.The father of three adult children said he and wife Julie would be moving to Wollongong as "empty nesters". Before moving, he will conduct weddings for two of his children early in the new year.Since being ordained as an assistant minister in 1992, he had founded new churches in Glenmore Park in western Sydney and in the American state of Washington. "Glenmore Park had 200 houses when we started the church and now it has 5000 houses," he said."I would like to continue to encourage the establishment of new churches during my time in Wollongong."Dr Jensen described Canon Hayward as a "son of the Wollongong region"."He is a seasoned church planter, having founded churches in Australia and in the United States," he said."His experience in multicultural ministry, clergy training and in diocesan affairs means he can give clear spiritual and intellectual leadership."