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The diocese is located in the state of New South Wales. It is centred in the city of Newcastle and extends along the state's coast from Woy Woy to Laurieton and inland to Merriwa and Murrurundi. The diocese was founded from the Diocese of Australia by letters patent of 25 June 1847. [1]
Bishops of Newcastle No From Until Incumbent Notes 1: 1847 1879 William Tyrrell [2] Installed 26 January 1848; died in office. 2: 1880 1889 Josiah Pearson: 3: 1890 1905 George Stanton: Translated from North Queensland; died in office. 4: 1906 1919 Jack Stretch: Previously Dean of Ballarat, coadjutor bishop of Brisbane and Dean of Newcastle ...
He has served as the bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle since 2 February 2018. He previously served as an assistant bishop in the diocese from 2009 to 2018. [2] Stuart has generated attention within the Anglican Church of Australia for his social justice activism. He supported the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW. [4]
In September 2012, he was elected as the next Bishop of Newcastle. [4] He took up the appointment on 2 February 2013, becoming the 13th Bishop of Newcastle. [9] Thompson concluded his ministry on 31 May 2017. His farewell service was held in Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle on 21 May 2017. [10]
The Church Missionary Society established a mission to Aboriginal people in 1832 in the Wellington Valley, New South Wales, but it ended in failure: indigenous people in the 19th century demonstrated a reluctance to convert to the religion of the colonists who were seizing their lands. [10] In 1842 the Diocese of Tasmania was created.
The church was built for the largely mining population of Newcastle. The first bishop of Newcastle, Bishop Tyrrell had noted that only the wealthy of the district attended Christ Church, and in order that the people may be "reclaimed from practical atheism" the new parish included the suburban area at that time as far as Waratah, Lambton, Adamstown and Cardiff, in addition to its mining core ...
Assistant bishops in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle (Australia) (8 P) Pages in category "Anglican bishops of Newcastle (Australia)" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
This Wikipedia article contains material from Christ Church Cathedral, Movable Collections, Cemetery and Park, entry number 01858 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 2 June 2018.