The Anglican Diocese of Gippsland is located in the Gippsland

Gippsland

Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south...

 region of Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, extending from Phillip Island to Mallacoota. It has existed as a diocese since 1902, when the Right Reverend Arthur Wellesley Pain was installed at the first Bishop of Gippsland.

The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral Church of St Paul, Sale

Sale, Victoria

Sale is a city in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. It is the seat of the Shire of Wellington as well as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sale and the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland. It has a population of around 13,336, and is expected to reach a population of 14,000 soon...

. The current Bishop of Gippsland is the Right Reverend John McIntyre

John McIntyre (bishop)

John Charles McIntyre is the 11th and current bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland in south-east Victoria, Australia.McIntyre was ordained as a bishop on 11 February 2006 and installed as Bishop of Gippsland at St Paul's Cathedral, Sale on 18 February 2006...

, who was installed in the cathedral on 18 February 2006.

History

The Diocese of Gippsland was created after a movement to divide up the Diocese of Melbourne which, as the oldest Anglican diocese in Victoria, had existed since 1847. Talk began of this as early as 1885 and in 1900 a bill was passed to create the Diocese of Sandhurst-Beechworth. Debate continued after this decision and eventually led to another bill in 1901, with which three new dioceses were created. Along with Ballarat and Wangaratta, the Diocese of Gippsland would come into existence in the following year.

The bishops of each of these dioceses weres elected by a body made up of the Bishop of Melbourne, four members of the Melbourne Bishopric Election Board, four clergy from the area in question and four laity. The Reverend Canon Arthur Wellesley Pain was chosen to be the first to preside over the Diocese of Gippsland. He was consecrated as a bishop in St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney, having previously ministered at St John's Darlinghurst in Sydney. He was then installed as Bishop of Gippsland in the Cathedral of St Paul in Gippsland on 10 July 1902.

Bishops

1902 - 1917 Arthur Wellesley Pain

1917 - 1942 George Harvard Cranswick

1942 - 1954 Donald Burns Blackwood

1955 - 1958 Edwin John Davidson

1959 - 1974 David Arthur Garnsey

1975 - 1980 Graham Richard Delbridge

1980 - 1987 Neville James Chynoweth

1987 - 1994 Colin Davies Sheumack

1994 - 2001 Arthur Vivian Lucas Jones

2001 - 2005 Jeffrey William Driver

Jeffrey William Driver

Jeffrey William Driver is the current Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of South Australia in the Anglican Church of Australia....

2006 - pres. John Charles McIntyre

Sources

• H.W. Nunn; A Short History of the Church of England in Victoria 1847-1947 (1947)
• Albert E. Clarke; The Church of our Fathers
• I. T. Maddern; Light and Life A history of the Anglican Church in Gippsland

External links

• Diocese of Gippsland website