ArmsFlagPrimatePolityTerritoryAustraliaIndependence1962Members3.1 millionOfficial websiteThe Anglican Church of Australia, formerly known as the Church of England in Australia, is a Christian church in and an autonomous church of the. It is the second largest church in Australia, after the.
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According to the 2016 census, 3.1 million Australians identify as Anglicans. For much of Australian history the church was the largest religious denomination. It remains today one of the largest providers of social welfare services in Australia.
Chaplain to theIn early Colonial times, the Church of England clergy worked closely with the., a chaplain, was charged by the governor, with improving 'public morality' in the colony, but he was also heavily involved in health and education. (1765–1838) had duties, and so was equated with the authorities by the convicts.
He became known as the 'flogging parson' for the severity of his punishments. Some of the Irish convicts had been transported to Australia for political crimes or social rebellion in Ireland, so the authorities were suspicious of Roman Catholicism for the first three decades of settlement and Roman Catholic convicts were compelled to attend Church of England services and their children and orphans were raised by the authorities as Anglicans.The Church of England lost its legal privileges in the Colony of by the Church Act of 1836. Drafted by the reformist, the act established legal equality for Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Presbyterians and was later extended to Methodists.A mission to the Aborigines was established in the Wellington Valley in New South Wales by the in 1832, but it ended in failure and indigenous people in the 19th century demonstrated a reluctance to convert to the religion of the colonists who were seizing their lands.In 1842 the Diocese of Tasmania was created. In 1847 the rest of the Diocese of Australia was divided into the four separate dioceses of,. Over the following 80 years the number of dioceses increased to 25.
Major religious affiliations in Australia by census yearin Australia tended to reflect the political inheritance of and Ireland. Until 1945, the vast majority of Roman Catholics in Australia were of Irish descent, causing the Anglo-Protestant majority to question their loyalty to the. The of 1901 provided for. Australian society was predominantly Anglo-Celtic, with 40% of the population being Anglican. It remained the largest until the 1986 census.
After, the ethnic and cultural mix of Australia diversified and Anglicanism gave way to Roman Catholicism as the largest denomination. The number of Anglicans attending regular worship began to decline in 1959 and figures for occasional services (baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals) started to decline after 1966. In recent times, the Anglican and other Christian churches of Australia have been active in activity. The Australian Committee for the World Council of Churches was established in 1946 by the Anglican and mainline Protestant churches.
The movement evolved and expanded with Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches later joining and by 1994 the was also a member of the national ecumenical body, the.Since 1 January 1962 the Australian church has been and headed by its own. On 24 August 1981 the church officially changed its name from the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania to the Anglican Church of Australia.Although the remains the official standard for Anglican belief and worship in Australia, An Australian Prayer Book (AAPB) was published in 1978 after a prolonged revision of liturgy. Another alternative service book, (APBA), was published in 1995.In 1985 the general synod of the Australian church passed a canon to allow the of women as deacons. In 1992 the general synod approved legislation allowing dioceses to ordain women to the priesthood. Dioceses could choose to adopt the legislation. In 1992, 90 women were ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia and two others who had been ordained overseas were recognised. After decades of debate the issue of women's ordination, particularly as bishops, continues to divide traditionalists and reformers within the church.
As of November 2013 five dioceses had not ordained women as priests and two had not ordained women as deacons. The most recent diocese to vote in favour of ordaining women as priests was the diocese in October 2013. In 2008, was ordained as an assistant bishop for the, thus becoming the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia.
Was elected in 2013 to be the first female diocesan bishop in Australia. In 2014 she was consecrated and installed as the first female diocesan bishop in Australia (for the Diocese of Grafton in New South Wales).The church remains a major provider of education and welfare services in Australia. It provides chaplains to the, hospitals, schools, industry and prisons.
Senior clergy such as, former Archbishop of Sydney, have a high profile in discussions on a diverse range of social issues in contemporary national debates. In recent times the church has encouraged its leaders to talk on such issues as indigenous rights; international security; peace and justice; and poverty and equity. The current primate is, who took office on 4 July 2014.Like other religious groups, the church has come under criticism in light of cases of sexual abuse by clergy and others.
Demographics and structure. People who identify as Anglican as a percentage of the total population in Australia at the 2011 census, divided geographically by statistical local areaUntil the 1986 census, Australia's most populous Christian church was the Anglican Church of Australia. Since then Roman Catholics have outnumbered Anglicans by an increasing margin. One rationale to explain this relates to changes in. Prior to the, the majority of immigrants to Australia had come from the United Kingdom – though most of Australia's Roman Catholic immigrants had come from Ireland.
After World War II, Australia's immigration program diversified and more than 6.5 million migrants arrived in Australia in the 60 years after the war, including more than a million Roman Catholics.Census data shows that as a percentage of population Anglican affiliation peaked in 1921 at 43.7%, and the number of persons indicating Anglican affiliation peaked in 1991 at 4 million. In the 2011 there were 3,679,907 Anglicans, representing 17.1 per cent of the population. (See accompanying graph.)The Australian church consists of twenty-three arranged into five provinces (except for ) with the sees in the states' capital cities. Is the church's national publishing arm. Main article:Anglicans have played a prominent role in welfare and education since Colonial times, when chaplain was credited by one convict as 'the physician both of soul and body' during the famine of 1790 and was charged with general supervision of schools.
Today the church remains a significant provider of social welfare with organisations working in education, health, missionary work, social welfare and communications. Welfare organisations include.
The Anglicare network comprises 9000 volunteers beyond paid staff, who assisted some 940,000 Australians in 2016 in areas such as emergency relief, aged care, family support and assistance for the homeless.There are around 145, providing for more than 105,000 children. Church schools range from low-fee, regional and special needs schools to high-fee leading independent schools like, whose include and; and Sydney's. The is the national schools network of the Australian General Synod.
Architecture. Built in the 1840s, is the oldest building within 's city precinctThe first Church of England edifice was built in the colony of New South Wales in 1793. Today, most towns in Australia have at least one Christian church. One of Australia's oldest Anglican churches is in Sydney, built between 1819 and 1824.
The historic church was designed by 's architect, – a former convict – and built with convict labour. The church is set on a sandstone base and built of face brick with the walls articulated by brick piers. Sydney's Anglican cathedral, was consecrated in 1868 from foundations laid in the 1830s. Largely designed by in the style reminiscent of English cathedrals. Blacket also designed in, based on the style of a large English parish church and built between 1874 and 1884., from a foundation stone laid in 1880, is a Melbourne landmark. It was designed by the distinguished English architect in.is home to a number of significant colonial Anglican buildings including those located at Australia's best preserved convict era settlement,. According to 19th century notions of prisoner reform, the Model Prison incorporates a grim chapel, into which prisoners in solitary confinement were shepherded to listen (in individual enclosures) to the preacher's Sunday sermon – their only permitted interaction with another human being.
Adelaide, the capital of has long been known as the City of Churches and its is a noted city landmark.The oldest building in the city of is the picturesque in Reid, consecrated in 1845. This church long predates the city of Canberra and is not so much representative of urban design as it is of chapels which dot the Australian landscape and stretch even into the far.A number of notable era chapels and edifices were also constructed at church schools across Australia.
Along with community attitudes to religion, church architecture changed significantly during the 20th century.Ordination of women. See also:The church permits the ordination of women on a diocesan basis. In 1992, the church ordained the first women priests. In 2008, the consecrated the first woman bishop, the Rt Revd Kay Goldsworthy.
Then, in 2014, the Diocese of Grafton consecrated and installed its first diocesan woman bishop, the Rt Revd Sarah Macneil. Bishop Kay Goldsworthy also became the second diocesan woman bishop when she was enthroned as bishop of. The dioceses of, and do not ordain women as priests. In 2017, the Diocese of The Murray ordained the first woman as a deacon becoming the last diocese to ordain women to the diaconate.In August 2017, the Anglicans of Western Australia elected the Anglican Church of Australia's first female archbishop, Kay Goldsworthy.
In a statement representing a conservative and complementation view, Bishop Gary Nelson said that Archbishop Goldsworthy 'would not be recognised in her new role' as the metropolitan for the province. Same-sex unions and LGBT clergy. See also:In the Seventeenth Session of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia in 2017, the Anglican Church passed a motion recognising 'that the doctrine of our church, in line with traditional Christian teaching, is that marriage is an exclusiveand lifelong union of a man and a woman, and further, recognises that this has been the subject of several General Synod resolutions over the past fifteen years'. In 2018, the Primate of Australia and Archbishop of Melbourne, released an ad clerum reiterating the current position that clergy cannot perform a same-sex marriage. At the same time, the church does not have an official stance on homosexuality itself.During a meeting, the House of Bishops stated that they 'accept the weight of 1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10 and the 2004 General Synod resolutions 33, 59 and 61–64 as expressing the mind of this church on issues of human sexuality.
And understand that issues of sexuality are subject to ongoing conversation'. A former primate, Peter Carnley, supported the blessing of same-sex relationships and supported 'recognition of lifelong friendships between two homosexuals which would give them the same legal status as a heterosexual married couple.' A spokesman for, the Archbishop of Brisbane, stated that 'In effect it is an undertaking not to ordain, license, authorise or appoint persons whom the bishop knows to be in a sexual relationship outside of marriage.' At the same time, Archbishop Aspinall stated that he personally does not take an official position. Despite what the spokesman said, however, an Anglican priest came out as gay in 2005 in Melbourne. In the, 'there are gay and lesbian clergy serving in the priesthood.'
Archbishop Roger Herft, as a diocesan bishop, 'supported blessing gay unions.' In 2012, a bishop 'appointed a gay priest in a same-sex partnership to a parish.' The, the largest of the country, has expressed its opposition to same-sex unions and has been involved in the as a member of the.However, many clergy and bishops support same-sex unions.
The and dioceses have voted to support the blessing of same-sex civil unions. The Diocese of Wangaratta has approved of blessing rites for same-sex marriages. In 2012, the appointed an openly partnered gay priest. In 2013, the Diocese of Perth voted in favour of recognising same-sex unions. Archbishop vetoed the Perth motion, but said 'what we have in the Diocese of Perth of course is a number of people in same-sex relationships amongst the clergy and amongst the laity and we have always said that people of all forms of sexuality and orientation are welcome.' In 2015, the endorsed same-sex marriage legislation and some diocesan clergy offered to perform gay marriages when allowed to do so. In the, Bishop Sarah Macneil has taken an affirming stance.
Bishop of the had taken a stance in favour of gay rights.In 2015, an arm of the voted in favour of same-sex civil unions. Also, Bishop appointed an openly gay and partnered priest to another post. In response, the Sydney synod passed a resolution stating that the diocese 'views the actions of the Bishop of Gippsland as a breach of collegiality and fellowship at a profound level'. In 2016, the Bishop of Ballarat declared his support for same-sex marriage. In April 2016, a parish in the Diocese of Perth blessed the union of a same-sex couple. At General Synod in 2017, the synod passed a resolution criticising the Scottish Episcopal Church for its acceptance of same-sex marriage as well as an additional resolution calling for the church in Australia 'to have a series of conversations on its understanding of sexuality.'
Also in 2017, the Diocese of Perth in Western Australia elected Bishop Kay Goldsworthy as its archbishop. Goldsworthy said that she supports an 'inclusive' approach to same-sex marriage. 'Archbishop Goldsworthy revealed that she had voted Yes in the same-sex marriage survey.' Regarding transgender issues, there are dioceses and congregations with serving transgender clergy. In 2017, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall asked for 'prayerful support' for the Revd Josephine Inkpin who had transitioned and 'come out' as a transgender woman. 'The Archbishop of Brisbane Dr Phillip Aspinall supported Dr Inkpin and passed on her statement to clergy in July 2017, along with his wish that 'unhelpful speculation' might be avoided.' Inkpin continues to serve in the Brisbane diocese.
She shared that the bishops and leaders of the Diocese of Brisbane 'have assisted in arrangements for enabling her public recognition of gender.' Inkpin, who is married to the Revd Penny Jones, one of the first female priests ordained in Australia, is the first openly transgender priest in Australia. Provinces and dioceses. Ecumenical relations The church is a member of the.Relation with the Anglican realignment The has been a leading name in the, since they first opposed the pro-homosexuality policies of the of the United States and the.
Archbishop attended the first, on June 2008, in, and was the chairman of GAFCON. The and the have declared themselves in full communion with the, started in June 2009, which represents in United States and Canada.The was launched in Australia on 26 March 2015, in a conference held in that reunited 460 members, including 40 from, and was attended by Archbishop, from the, their international chairman, Archbishop, from the, and Archbishop, from the. The then archdeacon of the, now bishop, of the, became chairman of FCA Australia.The Anglican Church of Australia passed a motion at their General Synod on 7 September 2017, condemning the decision to approve same-sex marriage as 'contrary to the doctrine of our church and the teaching of Christ', and declaring itself in 'impaired communion' with the province. It also expressed 'support for those Anglicans who have left or will need to leave (.) because of its redefinition of marriage and those who struggle and remain', and presented their prayers for the return of SEC 'to the doctrine of Christ in this matter' and the restoration of the impaired communion.The Anglican Church of Australia was represented at, held in, on 17-22 June 2018, by a 218 members delegation, which included Archbishop, of, and Bishops, of, of, and Ian Palmer, of.
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