Everything about The Anglican Church Of Australia totally explained
The
Anglican Church of Australia, a member church of the
Anglican Communion, was previously officially known as the
Church of England in Australia and Tasmania (renamed in
1981). It is the second largest church in Australia, behind the
Roman Catholic Church in Australia.
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 four separate dioceses of
Sydney,
Adelaide,
Newcastle and
Melbourne. Over the following eighty years the number of dioceses increased to twenty-five.
Since
1 January 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.
Provinces and dioceses
The provinces and dioceses are listed with each dioceses's bishop or archbishop:
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