Anglican Church of Australia

Coat of arms of the Anglican Church of Australia

The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Fellowship in Australia and has 3,101,200 members in 1408 parishes, which are cared for by 3,693 clergy . This makes it the second largest denomination in Australia after the Roman Catholic . In 2001, 177,700 people attended the services every week.

The Anglican Church of Australia consists of 23 dioceses in five regions ( ecclesiastical provinces ), currently headed by the Archbishop of Melbourne as primate . Independent of the Church of England since 1962 , the National General Synod regulates all matters of this church independently and the state has only a small say.

Like the Church of England, the Church of Australia has female deacons (since 1986) and priestesses (since 1992). The distribution in 2002 was as follows:

• 203 deacons - 165 deacons
• 3057 priests - 365 priestesses

In 2008, Kay Goldsworthy was ordained in Perth as the first female bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. In 2014 Sarah Macneil was ordained bishop of the Grafton diocese .

In some dioceses of the Anglican Church in Australia, such as the Diocese of Wangaratta , blessing services were made possible for same-sex couples .

Dioceses

There are 23 dioceses:

• The Province of New South Wales
  • Armidale
  • Bathurst
  • Canberra & Goulburn
  • Grafton
  • Newcastle
  • Riverina
  • Sydney
• The Province of Queensland
  • Brisbane
  • North Queensland
  • The Northern Territory
  • Rockhampton
• The Province of South Australia
  • Adelaide
  • The Murray
  • Willochra
• The Province of Victoria
  • Ballarat
  • Bendigo
  • Gippsland
  • Melbourne
  • Wangaratta
• The province of Western Australia
  • Bunbury
  • North West Australia
  • Perth
• Extra diocese
  • Tasmania

Primates of Australia

• 1836-1853 William Grant Broughton (Bishop of Sydney)
• 1872–1882 Frederic Barker (Bishop of Sydney)
• 1884–1889 Alfred Barry (Bishop of Sydney)
• 1897–1909 William Saumarez Smith (Archbishop of Sydney)
• 1910–1933 John Charles Wright (Archbishop of Sydney)
• 1935–1946 Henry Frewen Le Fanu (Archbishop of Perth)
• 1947–1958 Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (Archbishop of Sydney)
• 1959–1966 Hugh Rowlands Gough (Archbishop of Sydney)
• 1966–1970 Philip Nigel Warrington Strong (Archbishop of Brisbane)
• 1971–1977 Frank Woods (Archbishop of Melbourne)
• 1978–1982 Marcus Lawrence Loane (Archbishop of Sydney)
• 1982–1989 John Basil Rowland Grindrod (Archbishop of Brisbane)
• 1990–1999 Keith Rayner (Archbishop of Melbourne)
• 2000–2005 Peter Frederick Carnley (Archbishop of Perth)
• 2005-2014 Phillip Aspinall (Archbishop of Brisbane)
• since 2014 Philip Freier (Archbishop of Melbourne)

Web links

• Official website of the Anglican Church of Australia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Number of Australian Anglicans falls by 580,000 in five years: Census 2016 The Melbourne Anglican. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
2. ↑ EternityNews.com:Anglicans' same-sex blessings dispute deepens as Newcastle joins in , October 2, 2019
3. ↑ [SBS News: Melbourne's Anglican church has formally voted to express "sorrow" over the Wangaratta diocese's decision to bless same-sex marriages]
4. ↑ Guardian: Anglican churches reject Sydney archbishop's stance on same-sex marriage
5. ↑ Anglican.ink: Australian diocese approves same-sex marriage