Anglican Diocese of Grafton

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Diocese of Grafton
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Location
Ecclesiastical province New South Wales
Coordinates 30°S153°E / 30°S 153°E / -30; 153 Coordinates: 30°S153°E / 30°S 153°E / -30; 153
Statistics
Parishes22
Churches54
Schools5
Information
Cathedral Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton
Current leadership
Bishop Murray Harvey
Website
graftondiocese.org

The Anglican Diocese of Grafton is one of the 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese is located in north-east New South Wales and covers the area from the Queensland border to Port Macquarie in the south and west to the Great Dividing Range.

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Created in 1914 as a result of a division of the previous Diocese of Grafton and Armidale it has 22 parishes and 3 transitional ministry districts and an Anglicare organisation seeking to support community and social needs within the diocese. The cathedral church is the Cathedral Church of Christ the King in Grafton.

The Church of St Thomas at Port Macquarie was built by an early Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane. It is the fifth oldest church building in Australia.

The current Bishop of Grafton, Murray Harvey, is the 12th bishop of the diocese. He was installed at Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton, on 29 September 2018.

Sarah Macneil the 11th Bishop of Grafton become the first woman to lead an Australian diocese as bishop. Macneil announced her resignation on 17 November 2017, to be effective from 3 March 2018. [1]

The bishop is based in Grafton.

Bishops

Bishops of Grafton
NoFromUntilIncumbentNotes
119141921 Cecil Druitt Previously Coadjutor Bishop of Grafton and Armidale; died in office.
219211938 John Ashton
319381945 William Stevenson Previously Archdeacon of Brisbane; died in office.
419461955 Christopher Storrs Previously Archdeacon of Northam.
519561961 Kenneth Clements Previously bishop coadjutor in the Diocese of Goulburn; translated to Canberra and Goulburn.
619611973 Gordon Arthur Previously an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
719731985 Donald Shearman Previously Bishop of Rockhampton; later resigned his holy orders and was defrocked.
819851998 Bruce Schultz Previously Dean of Grafton.
919982003 Philip Huggins Previously an Assistant Bishop of Perth; later an Assistant Bishop of Melbourne.
1020032013 Keith Slater [2]
1120142018 Sarah Macneil Previously an archdeacon in the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn and Dean of Adelaide.
122018present Murray Harvey Consecrated and installed 29 September 2018.
Source(s): [3]

Cathedral

The cathedral church is Christ Church Cathedral in Grafton which was designed by John Horbury Hunt and commenced in 1884 during the episcopacy of Bishop James Turner and completed to its present stage in 1937. [4] The building is of brick construction in a Gothic Revival style with towering arches and ornate stained glass windows. An organ was installed in 1884 by George Fincham of Melbourne which was replaced in 1992 by a 1903 instrument brought from London by Peter D.G. Jewkes Pty Ltd of Sydney. [5]

The cathedral is a National Trust listed building. [6]

Deans of Grafton

The following individuals have served as Deans of Grafton:

OrdinalNameTerm startTerm endNotes
1Arthur Edward Warr19491965
2Roderick William Bowie19661968
3Henry St John Edwards19691978
4 Bruce Allan Schultz 19791983Afterwards Bishop of Grafton, 1985
5 Richard Warwick Hurford 19831997Later Bishop of Bathurst, 2001
6Peter Charles Catt19972007Afterwards Dean of Brisbane, 2008
7 Donald Kingsley Kirk 20072017Later Bishop of Riverina, 2019
8Gregory Charles Jenks2017current

Church schools

The diocese also has a number of church-based schools providing education across a range of age groups.

FoundedSchoolEnrollmentYearsLocation
1981 Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School 1100P-12 Tweed Heads
1993 Bishop Druitt College 1192K-12 Coffs Harbour
1998 Emmanuel Anglican College 388P-12 Ballina
1998Clarence Valley Anglican School297P-12 Grafton
2002St Columba Anglican School680P-12 Port Macquarie

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References

  1. North Coast Anglican, December 2017
  2. Diocese of Grafton – Bishop's statement (Accessed 26 June 2013)
  3. "History". Anglican Diocese of Grafton. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  4. "Livestream".
  5. "Grafton Cathedral".
  6. Visit NSW website.