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20 unusual facts about Anglican Church of Australia


All Saints Church, Canberra

It is part of the diocese of Canberra and Goulburn in the Anglican Church of Australia.

Beachlands, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were Anglican, no religion, Roman Catholic and Uniting.

Beresford, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2001 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican and Uniting.

Bluff Point, Western Australia

The most common religious affiliations in descending order in the 2001 census were Roman Catholic, Anglican, no religion and Uniting.

Brinkin, Northern Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican, Greek Orthodox and Uniting.

Chisholm, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting, Presbyterian, Buddhist, Muslim, Lutheran and Orthodox Christian.

Fadden, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, no religion, Anglican, Uniting, and Presbyterian and Reformed.

Gilmore, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting, Presbyterian and Islam.

Girrawheen, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican, Buddhism and Islam.

Gowrie, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting, Presbyterian and other Christian.

Injinoo, Queensland

Although self-sufficient, through fishing and gardening, the Community made requests to the then Church of England to establish a mission and school.

James Leftwich

James Randolph (Jim) Leftwich was the national Aboriginal bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia, licensed as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of North Queensland.

Karloo, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2001 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican and Islam.

Macarthur, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting, Presbyterian and Orthodox Christian.

Monash, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting, Presbyterian and Hindu.

Rangeway, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were no religion, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Uniting.

Richardson, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting and Presbyterian.

Strathalbyn, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican and Uniting.

Usher, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2006 census were no religion, Anglican, Roman Catholic and Uniting.

Wanniassa, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, no religion, Anglican, Uniting, and Presbyterian.


Anglican Archbishop of Sydney

The Archbishop of Sydney is the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Australia and ex officio metropolitan bishop of the ecclesiastical Province of New South Wales.

Australian Constitutional Convention 1998

Clergy from the major churches were appointed as delegates: the Catholic Church in Australia's George Pell and the Anglican Church of Australia' s Peter Hollingworth; while republican Tim Costello, a prominent Baptist minister was elected as a representative for Victoria from the "Real Republic Group".

Beaumont House

Bishop Short later founded St Peter's Cathedral, an Anglican church, in 1869.

Bill Ray

William James "Bill" Ray is the current and tenth Anglican Bishop of North Queensland in Australia.

Edward Dickens

Edward 'Plorn' Dickens was clearly named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton — nowadays much satirised for the famous opening line of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford, "It was a dark and stormy night" — and educated at Tunbridge Wells in Kent at a private school owned by the Reverend W. C Sawyer, later Anglican bishop of Armidale and Grafton.

Graeme Goldsworthy

Graeme Goldsworthy is an Australian Anglican theologian specialising in the Old Testament and Biblical theology.

Harry Entwistle

He migrated to Australia in 1988 and continued his parish and prison ministry in the Diocese of Perth of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Philip Strong

Sir Philip Nigel Warrington Strong KBE CMG CStJ (1899–6 July 1983) served as the fifth Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane from 1962 to 1970, also serving as primate of the Church of England in Australia (now called the Anglican Church of Australia) from 1966.

Wangaratta

Notable buildings include the Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral and its Cathedral Close, St. Patrick's Catholic Church and the eccentric art déco courthouse.

Woodcourt College

Woodcourt College was an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Wardell Road on the border of Marrickville and Dulwich, inner western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.