The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was founded on 22 June 1977,when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia,about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia united under the Basis of Union. According to the church,it had 243,000 members in 2018. In the 2016 census,870,183 Australians identified with the church,but that figure fell to 673,260 in the 2021 census. In the 2011 census,that figure was 1,065,796.
Rodney Dean Drayton is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) and was President of the UCA Assembly from July 2003 to July 2006. He lectures on a part-time basis in missiology at Sydney's United Theological College (UTC).
The Uniting College for Leadership and Theology located at Brooklyn Park South Australia is a Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) theological college for the education and training of both lay people and those for specified ministries including the diaconate and youth workers. It is a member college of the University of Divinity.
Harold D'Arcy Wood is a semi-retired minister of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) and was President of the UCA Assembly from 1991 to 1994. He has been active in ecumenism in Australia and globally.
Alistair Macrae is an ordained Christian minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and was formerly a moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania,and President of the National Assembly.
Reverend Professor Andrew Fergus Dutney is a Christian scholar,writer,and musician. He is a Professor within the College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences,Flinders University. He is the former principal of Uniting College for Leadership and Theology and a past President of the Assembly of the Uniting Church. He was installed in the position of president on 15 July 2012 on the first day of the Uniting Church's 13th triennial assembly meeting in Adelaide,handing over 12 July 2015 to Mr Stuart McMillan. His installation service took place before around 3000 people at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Dutney returned to his previous role as Principal of Uniting College for Leadership and Theology at the conclusion of his term as President.
Ian Bowe Tanner was an Australian Presbyterian and Uniting Church minister. He was President of the Uniting Church's Assembly between 1985 and 1988.
Scots Church is a Uniting church on the southwest corner of North Terrace and Pulteney Street in Adelaide,the capital city of South Australia. Founded by the Free Church of Scotland,the stone church was one of the early churches built in the new city in 1850,built as the Chalmers Church.
Rolland Busch,,also known as Rollie Busch,was an Australian theologian and Presbyterian and Uniting Church minister. He was the foundation principal of the Trinity Theological College in Brisbane from when it was formed in 1977 until 1985. He was president of the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia from 1982 to 1985. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1978 Queens Birthday Honours and appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1984.
Stuart McMillan was the national President of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) from July 2015 to July 2018. He was installed for a three-year term on 12 July 2015 at a service at Perth's Scotch College.
The Synod of South Australia is the entity of the Uniting Church in Australia covering most of the state of South Australia. It is one of six geographically-based Synods of the church. The leader of the Synod is the moderator elected to the position for a period of three years. The legal entity for the South Australian branch of the Uniting Church is The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (S.A.) The synod publishes a bimonthly magazine,the New Times.
The Synod of Western Australia is the entity of the Uniting Church in Australia covering most of the state of Western Australia,south of a line near Port Hedland. It is one of six geographically-based Synods of the church. The leader of the Synod is the moderator elected to the position for a period of three years.
The Synod of Queensland or Queensland Synod is a state council of the Uniting Church in Australia.
The Synod of New South Wales and the ACT is a regional council of the Uniting Church in Australia having responsibility for the congregations and presbyteries in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. From its creation in 1977 until 29 March 2008,the Synod had the shorter title of Synod of New South Wales.
The Synod of Victoria and Tasmania is the entity of the Uniting Church in Australia covering the states of Victoria and Tasmania. It is one of six geographically-based synods of the church. When the Uniting Church was created in 1977,the Synod of Victoria and Synod of Tasmania were independent,but subsequently merged on 22 June 2002.
The United Theological College (UTC) is an Australian theological college and a founding member of Charles Sturt University's School of Theology. As well as providing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in all areas of theology,the UTC trains ministry candidates for the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory.
Denise Mary Champion is an Aboriginal Australian deacon in the Uniting Church in Australia who serves as an outreach worker. She was the first Aboriginal woman from South Australia to be ordained in any Christian denomination.
Sharon Hollis is an Australian Minister and the 16th President of the Uniting Church in Australia.
Charissa Suli is the President-Elect of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) for 2024–27. She is the youngest and the first person of colour to serve in this role. She is also the second ordained woman to hold this position.
Lilian Wells (1911–2001) was an Australian church leader who served as president of the Congregational Union of Australia,and the first moderator of the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. She was the only woman to serve in the role of president for the Congregational Union. She served on the joint committee that planned the merger of the Congregationalist,Methodist and Presbyterian churches that formed the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977. She was appointed an Officer of Order of the British Empire in 1977,for her service to the church.
