Anglican Church of Australia

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The Anglican Church of Australia, a member church of the Anglican Communion, was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia (renamed in 1981).

When the First Fleet was sent to New South Wales in 1787, the Reverend Richard Johnson was licensed as chaplain to the Fleet and the settlement. In 1825 the Revd Thomas Scott was appointed Archdeacon of Australia under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Calcutta. The Revd William Grant Broughton, who succeeded Scott in 1829, was consecrated the first (and only) Bishop of Australia in 1836. In 1842 the Diocese of Tasmania was also created. In 1847 the rest of the Diocese of Australia was divided into the three separate dioceses of Adelaide, Newcastle and Melbourne. Over the following eighty years the number of dioceses increased to twenty-five.

Since January 1 1962 the Australian church has been autocephalous and headed by its own primate. The current primate is the Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall.

The Australian church consists of twenty-three dioceses arranged into five provinces (except for Tasmania) with the metropolitical sees in the states' capital cities.

The provinces and dioceses are:

• The Province of New South Wales (Metropolitan: The Most Reverend Peter Jensen)
  • Armidale (bishop: The Right Revd Peter Brain)
  • Bathurst ( The Right Revd Richard Hurford)
  • Canberra & Goulburn ( The Right Revd George Browning)
  • Grafton (The Right Revd Kenneth Slater)
  • Newcastle ( The Right Revd Brian Farran)
  • Riverina ( bishop-elect: Fr Douglas Stephens)
  • Sydney (archbishop and metropolitan: The Most Revd Peter Jensen)
• The Province of Queensland (Metropolitan: The Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall)
  • Brisbane
  • North Queensland
  • The Northern Territory
  • Rockhampton (The Right Revd Godfrey Fryar)
• The Province of South Australia (Metropolitan: The Right Reverend Jeffrey Driver, enthroned 23 October 2005)
  • Adelaide
  • The Murray (The Right Revd Ross Davies)
  • Willochra (The Right Revd Garry Weatherill)
• The Province of Victoria (Metropolitan: The Most Reverend Peter Watson)
  • Ballarat (The Right Revd Michael Hough)
  • Bendigo (The Right Revd Andrew Curnow)
  • Gippsland
  • Melbourne
  • Wangaratta (The Right Revd David Farrer)
• The Province of Western Australia (Metropolitan: The Most Reverend Roger Herft)
  • Bunbury
  • North West Australia
  • Perth (archbishop and metropolitan: The Most Reverend Roger Herft)
• Extra Provincial Diocese
  • Tasmania

See also

• Sydney Anglicans

External links

• Anglican Church of Australia - the official site.
• Anglican Communion: The Anglican Church of Australia

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