Anglican Diocese of Melbourne
| Diocese of Melbourne | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Victoria |
| Archdeaconries | Box Hill, Dandenong, Frankston, Geelong, Kew, La Trobe, Maroondah, Melbourne, Port Philip & Bayside & Kingston North, Stonnington & Glen Eira, and The Yarra |
| Coordinates | 37°49′1″S 144°58′3″E / 37.81694°S 144.96750°ECoordinates: 37°49′1″S 144°58′3″E / 37.81694°S 144.96750°E |
| Information | |
| Rite | Anglican |
| Cathedral | St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne |
| Current leadership | |
| Archbishop | Philip Freier |
| Suffragans |
Paul White, Southern Region Philip Huggins, North West Region vacant, Eastern Region |
| Website | |
| melbourne.anglican.com.au | |
The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne is the metropolitan diocese of the Province of Victoria in the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese was founded from the Diocese of Australia by letters patent of 25 June 1847 and includes the cities of Melbourne and Geelong and also some more rural areas. The cathedral church is St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. The ordinary of the diocese is the Archbishop of Melbourne, Philip Freier, who was translated from the Anglican Diocese of The Northern Territory.
The Diocese of Melbourne is divided into three regions each with its own bishop: the Southern Region, the Eastern Region and the North-West Region. The archbishop's residence is Bishopscourt in East Melbourne.
Churchmanship within the Melbourne diocese is diverse and the three principal Anglican traditions, Evangelical, Liberal and Anglo-Catholic, are all significantly represented.
The existence of such differing traditions within the diocese is sometimes a cause of tensions. The difficulty with which an archbishop was elected in 2006 provided a recent example.
The diocese has two theological colleges, both in the suburb of Parkville, which prepare men and women for ordination and other forms of ministry. Trinity College Theological School, founded in 1878, is part of Trinity College, a residential college within the University of Melbourne and is more Liberal and Anglo-Catholic in tradition. Ridley Melbourne was founded in 1910 in the Evangelical tradition. A founding member of the Melbourne College of Divinity (now the University of Divinity) in 1910, Trinity was also a partner in the ecumenical United Faculty of Theology until its disbanding at the end of 2014. From 1 January 2015 it has been a college of the University of Divinity. Ridley is affiliated with the Australian College of Theology.
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