Anglican Diocese of Perth

The Anglican Diocese of Perth is one of the twenty three dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia. The Constitution of the Diocese of Perth was passed and adopted in 1872 at the first Synod held in Western Australia. From 1914 the head of the diocese was elevated to the rank of Archbishop. The diocese incorporates the southern part of the state of Western Australia and includes the Christmas and Cocos Islands. Other dioceses in Western Australia are the dioceses of Bunbury and of North West Australia.

The cathedral church of the diocese is St George's Cathedral, Perth.

[edit] Bishops and Archbishops of Perth

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1856-1875	Mathew Blagden Hale	First Bishop
1876-1893	Henry Hutton Parry	Second Bishop
1895-1929	Charles Owen Leaver Riley	Bishop 1895-1914; First Archbishop 1914-1929
1929-1946	Henry Frewen Le Fanu	Archbishop 1929-1946 Primate of Australia 1935-1946
1947-1962	Robert William Haines Moline	Third Archbishop
1963-1969	George Appleton	Fourth Archbishop
1969-1980	Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell	Fifth Archbishop
1981-2005	Peter Frederick Carnley	Sixth Archbishop 1981-2005; Primate of Australia 2000-2005
2005-	Roger Herft	Seventh Archbishop of Perth and Metropolitan of the Province of Western Australia