Anglican Church of Australia

The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Communion in Australia and has 3,903,324 members in 1408 parishes, which are supervised by clerics 3693. It is thus by the Roman Catholic is the second largest Christian church in Australia. Weekly visited in the year 2001 177.700 people worship.

The Anglican Church of Australia consists of 23 dioceses in five regions ( Church Provinces), currently the Archbishop of Brisbane headed by a primate. Since 1962 independent of the Church of England, regulates the National General Synod all aspects of the church independently and the state has only a little say.

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

  • 203 deacons - 165 deaconesses
  • 3057 Priest - 365 priestesses

Dioceses

There are 23 dioceses:

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

Primates of Australia

Ecclesiastical province Phillip Aspinall Lambeth Conferences Anglican Consultative Council Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia Church of Bangladesh Anglican Church of Bermuda Province of the Anglican Church of Burundi Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean Church of Ireland Anglican Church of Canada Anglican Church of Kenya Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo Church of the Province of Melanesia Church of the Province of Myanmar Church of Nigeria Church of North India Church of Pakistan Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church Church of Ceylon Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan Anglican Church of Southern Africa Church of South India Church of the Province of South East Asia Church in the Province of the West Indies Church of the Province of West Africa Church in Wales Church of the Province of Central Africa Anglican Church in Central America
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