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).
John Dunmore Lang was a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian minister,writer,historian,politician and activist. He was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism.
Octavius Charles Beale was an Irish-born Australian piano manufacturer and a philanthropist.
William David Crews AM is an Australian Christian minister of the Uniting Church. He is the minister of the Ashfield parish in Sydney's Inner West.
Edwin David Manton is a retired Australian minister and former Moderator of the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia.
Howard Henry Nolan was an Australian Methodist minister. From 1908 until 1911 he was Conference Secretary of Foreign Missions and in 1928 and 1929 was elected as Secretary of the New South Wales Conference of Methodist Church of Australasia.
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.
Rupert Howard Grove was an Australian solicitor and a prominent Methodist and Uniting Church layman. The Australian Dictionary of Biography states that,"in the progression towards the union of the Congregational,Methodist and Presbyterian churches in Australia,Grove made a decisive impact."
McCoy,Grove &Atkinson was an Australian commercial law firm. It was established in 1887 in Marrickville,New South Wales,by Richard McCoy and soon after moved to Castlereagh Street,Sydney. The name of McCoy,Grove &Atkinson was adopted in 1929 and in 1956 the firm of Fitzhardinge,Son &Yeomans was subsumed into the partnership. The firm closed on 30 June 2014.
St Stephen's Uniting Church is a congregation of the Uniting Church located at 197 Macquarie Street,in the Sydney central business district,in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales,Australia. It is part of the Sydney Presbytery and the NSW-ACT Synod.
Sharon Hollis is an Australian Minister and the 16th President of the Uniting Church in Australia.
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.
Rev. Faaimata (Mata) Havea Hiliau is an Australian religious leader. She currently serves as the moderator of the NSW/ACT Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. Rev Hiliau is the first Tongan-Australian to fill the role.
Gloria Shipp is an Anglican priest,the first Aboriginal woman ordained as deacon and then as priest in the Anglican Church of Australia and the first woman elected Chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council. She is of the Gamilaroi/Kamilaroi nation and lives on Wiradjuri country. Shipp founded Walkabout Ministries as an accessible,culturally sensitive church that embraces Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
