Reverend Tim Gibson with young people from the Anglican and Catholic churches in Toorak, after they reaffirmed an agreement. Patricia and Colin Park with their children Sarah and Stewart deliver publicity material about a mission in East Malvern, to be delivered by Bishop Howell Witt of North West Australia. Marj Pickford of St John’s Bentleigh takes a ride on the Evangelisation Society of Victoria’s new flying fox at its Marysville Camp. Rodney Oliver (examining chaplain) with ordinands Malcolm Thomas, Philip Muston, Peter Lawry, Ron Cozens, John Temby, Paul Dalzell, Nigel Wright, Archdeacon John Moroney (examining chaplain), Peter Martin, David Lamont, John Mackley, Philip Higgins, Grant Edgcumbe, Howard Langmead, Tom Sansom, Robert Presland, David Powys, Robert Tett, Grant Vayne, Albert McPherson (precentor), Sister Inez (examining chaplain), Gordon Brown (examining chaplain), Bishop Grant, the archbishop, Bishop Muston, Bishop Shand and the Dean. Charles Sherlock with his wife Peta after he was awarded a Doctor of Theology degree. City Life director Peter Chapman chats with a Bourke Street busker. John Harmer, Derek Snibson and Ray McInnes discus ministry over a model of a new inter-church ministry in North Fitzroy. Ross Ollington from Maryborough speaks at a recent Youth Synod held in the Diocese of Bendigo. CMS missionaries Libby and Jo Hogarth spoke to See about their worth in Tanzania. Ruth, Andrew and Jo Hogarth in Tanzania. An African mission team visited Melbourne in 1982, visiting Anglican churches among their work. Quach Mong Kien, Huyn Kim Lan, Huynh Kim Anh and Ha Quang Paul were brought to Melbourne from a Hong Kong refugee camp by St Philip’s West Heidelberg and St John’s Heidelberg. Former St Judes’ Carlton member Denise Ray spoke to See about teaching at a high school for missionaries’ children in Papua New Guinea. Glenys Bickerstaff and Morna Sturrock with kneelers knitted for St George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. More than 200 delegates met in Sydney in May 1982 for General Synod. A dramatic tale courtesy of the Church of England Boys Society and Bush Church Aid. Mary Hughes dressed as “Mary Mouse from Bible House” on Swanston Street. Jim Brady and Michael Meszaros discuss a memorial to Archbishop Geoffrey Sambell in his old parish church St Mary’s North Melbourne. All Saints’ Preston parishioners Leonie Bell and Lil Sherriff with Santa Clause.
Is 1982 a stretch to recall? Here’s a few highlights to jog your memory.
It wasn’t The Melbourne Anglican, but See, journal of the Anglican Church for the Melbourne, Bendigo and Wangaratta diocese.
Women’s ordination was among the issues See covered, as a May General Synod in Sydney cleared any constitutional barriers to this.
Click through the full gallery to find out what else was current in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, and beyond, in 1982.