The Anglican Church of Australia, a member church of the Anglican Communion, was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania (renamed in 1981). It is the second largest church in Australia, behind the Roman Catholic Church in Australia.
When the First Fleet was sent to New South Wales in 1787, the Reverend Richard Johnson was licensed as chaplain to the Fleet and the settlement. In 1825 the Revd Thomas Scott was appointed Archdeacon of Australia under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Calcutta. The Revd William Grant Broughton, who succeeded Scott in 1829, was consecrated the first (and only) Bishop of Australia in 1836. In 1842 the Diocese of Tasmania was also created. In 1847 the rest of the Diocese of Australia was divided into the four separate dioceses of Sydney, Adelaide, Newcastle and Melbourne. Over the following eighty years the number of dioceses increased to twenty-five. Since 1 January 1962 the Australian church has been autocephalous and headed by its own primate. The current primate is the Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall.
The Australian church consists of twenty-three dioceses arranged into five provinces (except for Tasmania) with the metropolitical sees in the states' capital cities. Broughton Publishing is the church's national publishing arm.
Major religious affiliations in Australia by census year
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Provinces and dioceses
The provinces and dioceses are listed with each dioceses's bishop or archbishop:
- The Province of New South Wales (Metropolitan: The Most Revd Peter Jensen)
- The Province of Queensland (Metropolitan: The Most Revd Phillip Aspinall)
- The Province of South Australia (Metropolitan: The Most Revd Jeffrey Driver)
- Adelaide (Archbishop: The Most Revd Jeffrey Driver)
- The Murray (The Right Revd Ross Davies)
- Willochra (The Right Revd Garry Weatherill)
- The Province of Victoria (Metropolitan: The Most Revd Philip Freier)
- The Province of Western Australia (Metropolitan: The Most Reverend Roger Herft)
- Extraprovincial diocese
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