The Anglican Diocese of Perth is one of the 23 diocese

Diocese

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s of the Anglican Church of Australia

Anglican Church of Australia

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. The constitution of the Diocese of Perth was passed and adopted in 1872

1872 in Australia

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 at the first synod

Synod

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 held in Western Australia

Western Australia

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. In 1914, the Province of Western Australia

Province of Western Australia

The Province of Western Australia is an ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Church of Australia, the boundaries of are those of the state of Western Australia. The province consists of three dioceses: Bunbury, North West Australia and Perth...

 was created and the diocesan bishop became ex officio metropolitan bishop

Metropolitan bishop

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 of the new province and therefore also an archbishop. The diocese incorporates the southern part of the state of Western Australia

Western Australia

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 and includes the Christmas

Christmas Island

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 and Cocos Islands. The other dioceses in the Anglican Province of Western Australia are the Diocese of Bunbury

Anglican Diocese of Bunbury

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 and the Diocese of North West Australia

Anglican Diocese of North West Australia

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The diocese has traditionally had a variety of churchmanship

Churchmanship

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 and in recent years has largely moved toward a more liberal

Liberal Christianity

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 and moderate Catholic style. There are, however, parishes and clergy representative of all the main Anglican traditions.

The cathedral church of the diocese is St George's Cathedral, Perth

St George's Cathedral, Perth

St George's Cathedral is the principal Anglican church in the city of Perth, Western Australia and the mother-church of the Anglican Diocese of Perth. It is located in St Georges Terrace in the centre of the city.- History:...

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Bishops and Archbishops of Perth

Bishops of Perth
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1857	1875	Matthew Hale	Translated to Brisbane Bishop of Brisbane Queen Victoria created the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane and in 1859 appointed the Right Reverend Edward Tufnell as the first diocesan bishop. Tufnell designated St John's Cathedral in Brisbane as the pro-cathedral... .
1876	1893	Henry Parry Henry Parry Henry Hutton Parry was the second Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Perth, a position held from 1876 to 1893. Educated at Rugby School, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, , and the University of Durham...	Died in office.
1894	1914	Charles Riley	Became Archbishop of Perth.
Archbishops of Perth
1914	1929	Charles Riley	Previously Bishop of Perth; died in office.
1929	1946	Henry Le Fanu Henry Le Fanu The Most Rev Henry Frewen Le Fanu was an eminent Australian Bishop. Born in Dublin, educated at Haileybury and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1894, he began his ecclesiastical career as a curate in Poplar. From 1899 to 1901 he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester after which he held a...	Previously coadjutor bishop Coadjutor bishop A coadjutor bishop is a bishop in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches who is designated to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese, almost as co-bishop of the diocese...  in Brisbane Anglican Diocese of Brisbane The Anglican Diocese of Brisbane is based in Brisbane, Australia. The diocesan bishop's seat is St John's Cathedral, Brisbane. The current Archbishop of Brisbane is the Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall, who is also the Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia.The diocese stretches from the inner... ; elected Primate of Australia Anglican Primate of Australia The Anglican Primate of Australia is the head of the independent Anglican Church of Australia. He or she is elected from among the country's Anglican archbishops.-List of Primates of Australia:...  in 1935; died in office.
1947	1962	Robert Moline
1963	1969	George Appleton George Appleton George Appleton CMG, MBE was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century.He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and ordained in 1926. After a curacy at Stepney Parish Church he spent 20 years in Burma as a SPG missionary before returning to England...	Translated to Jerusalem.
1969	1980	Geoffrey Sambell	Previously coadjutor bishop in Melbourne Anglican Diocese of Melbourne The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne is the metropolitan diocese of the Province of Victoria in the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese includes the urban cities of Melbourne and Geelong and also some more rural areas. The cathedral church is St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne... ; died in office.
1981	2005	Peter Carnley Peter Carnley Peter Frederick Carnley AC is a retired Australian Anglican bishop. Carnley was the Archbishop of Perth from 1981 to 2005 and was Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from 2000 until July 2005...	Elected Primate of Australia in 2000.
2005	present	Roger Herft Roger Herft Roger Adrian Herft is a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He has been the Archbishop of Perth since 2005.Born in Wattegama, Sri Lanka, Herft studied at the Royal College in Colombo, later training for the ministry at United Theological College of Lanka in Pilimatalawe, receiving a B.Th....	Previously Bishop of Waikato Diocese of Waikato The Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia...  and then of Newcastle Bishop of Newcastle, Australia The present bishop of Newcastle in the Anglican Church of Australia is the Right Reverend Brian Farran, who was enthroned on 24 June 2005 at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, New South Wales.-Former bishops:... .

Assistant bishops

Assistant bishops of Perth
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1957	1963	Robert Freeth, Assistant Bishop
1964	aft. 1977	Brian Macdonald, bishop coadjutor	Thomas Brian Macdonald; previously Dean of Perth (1959–1964).
1978	1999	Michael Challen, Assistant Bishop of Perth	Previously archdeacon.
c. 1982	present?	Brian Kyme, Assistant Bishop of Perth
c. 1990s		Ben Wright, Bishop of the Goldfields Country Region
1998	2005	Brian Farran, Bishop of the Goldfields Country Region	Became Bishop of the Northern Region; translated to Newcastle Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, Australia The Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, Australia is located in the state of New South Wales and extends along the coast of New South Wales from Woy Woy to Laurieton and inland to Merriwa and Murrurundi. The cathedral church of the diocese is Christ Church Cathedral in Newcastle. The current Bishop of... .
bef. 1998	c. 2005	David Murray, Bishop of the Southern Region	aka Bishop of Freemantle.
c. 2000		Gerald Beaumont, Bishop of the Goldfields Country Region
2004	2006	Tom Wilmot, Bishop of the Goldfields Country Region	Translated between regions.
2006	present	Tom Wilmot, Bishop of the Eastern and Rural Region
2006	2008	Mark Burton, Bishop of the Northern Region
2008	present	Dominic Vargas, Bishop of the Southern Region

See also

• St George's Cathedral, Perth
  St George's Cathedral, Perth
  St George's Cathedral is the principal Anglican church in the city of Perth, Western Australia and the mother-church of the Anglican Diocese of Perth. It is located in St Georges Terrace in the centre of the city.- History:...
  
  
• St Bartholomew's Church

External links

• Diocese of Perth website