Diocese of Gippsland
| Diocese of Gippsland | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Victoria |
| Information | |
| Rite | Anglican |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Church of St Paul, Sale |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | John McIntyre |
| Website | |
| www.gippsanglican.org.au | |
The Anglican Diocese of Gippsland is located in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, extending from Phillip Island to Mallacoota. It has existed as a diocese since 1902, when the Right Reverend Arthur Wellesley Pain was installed at the first Bishop of Gippsland.
The current Bishop of Gippsland is the Right Reverend John McIntyre, who was installed in the cathedral on 18 February 2006.
History
The Diocese of Gippsland was created after a movement to divide up the Diocese of Melbourne which, as the oldest Anglican diocese in Victoria, had existed since 1847. Talk began of this as early as 1885 and in 1900 a bill was passed to create the Diocese of Sandhurst-Beechworth. Debate continued after this decision and eventually led to another bill in 1901, with which three new dioceses were created. Along with Ballarat and Wangaratta, the Diocese of Gippsland would come into existence in the following year.
The bishops of each of these dioceses weres elected by a body made up of the Bishop of Melbourne, four members of the Melbourne Bishopric Election Board, four clergy from the area in question and four laity. The Reverend Canon Arthur Wellesley Pain was chosen to be the first to preside over the Diocese of Gippsland. He was consecrated as a bishop in St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney, having previously ministered at St John's Darlinghurst in Sydney. He was then installed as Bishop of Gippsland in the Cathedral of St Paul in Gippsland on 10 July 1902.
Bishops
- 1902 - 1917 Arthur Wellesley Pain
- 1917 - 1942 George Harvard Cranswick
- 1942 - 1954 Donald Burns Blackwood
- 1955 - 1958 Edwin John Davidson
- 1959 - 1974 David Arthur Garnsey
- 1975 - 1980 Graham Richard Delbridge
- 1980 - 1987 Neville James Chynoweth
- 1987 - 1994 Colin Davies Sheumack {previously Dean of Bathurst)
- 1994 - 2001 Arthur Vivian Lucas Jones
- 2001 - 2005 Jeffrey William Driver (translated to Anglican Diocese of Adelaide}
- 2006 - present John Charles McIntyre
Facilities
The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral Church of St Paul, Sale. The diocese also has two affiliated schools, Gippsland Grammar School and St Paul's Anglican Grammar School, Warragul.
Sources
- H.W. Nunn; A Short History of the Church of England in Victoria 1847-1947 (1947)
- Albert E. Clarke; The Church of our Fathers
- I. T. Maddern; Light and Life A history of the Anglican Church in Gippsland
- Anglican Diocese of Gippsland. "Gippsland Anglican Website". Retrieved 18 October 2012.
External links
Coordinates: 38°6′24″S 147°4′18″E / 38.10667°S 147.07167°E
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