Bishop-elect Margaret Brenda Vertue, Senior Priest and Vicar General of the Anglican Diocese of False Bay will be consecrated and enthroned as the second Bishop of the Diocese of False Bay and the second woman, after the Right Revd Ellinah Wamukoya, Bishop of Swaziland; on Saturday, 19 January at 10:30
10 January 2013
The Anglican Archbishops of Melbourne and Brisbane, Dr Philip Freier and Dr Phillip Aspinall, have today announced that a Melbourne priest has been selected to lead the Southern Region of the Diocese of Brisbane as Queensland’s first woman bishop.
02 December 2012
Following an emergency meeting of the House of Bishops this morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams delivered the Presidential Statement to General Synod, in which he called on members to 'attend to one another...to give to one another the care that we need'.
21 November 2012
We formed into three processions, and, like good Anglicans, we sung our beautiful hymns to a beautifully and prayerfully crafted liturgy. From the back of the procession, I could see nine mitres ahead of me, piercing the sky, as each procession went into the Mavuso Trade Centre, where between three and four thousand faithful gathered to witness Ellinah being 'done'.
18 November 2012
The Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier, has announced the appointment of Canon Barbara Darling as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne.
25 April 2008
The Archbishop of Perth, The Most Reverend Roger Herft, this morning announced the appointment of Australia’s first woman bishop
14 April 2008
It is with joy that Canada sends you the news that the Reverend Canon Dr. Linda Nicholls has been elected Bishop Suffragan for the Diocese of Toronto. She will be consecrated on 2 February 2008.
07 December 2007
It is only a matter of time before women become bishops in Australia, according to Dr Muriel Porter, chair of the General Synod Working Group on Women Bishops.
23 September 1999
If there is one experience that sums up the reception of the first bishops who are female at a Lambeth Conference, it is the power of the incarnational encounter.
30 July 1998