The 18 new priests with St Paul’s Cathedral staff, examining chaplains, Assistant Bishops the Right Reverend Paul Barker and the Right Reverend Kate Prowd, the Reverend Angus Monro, Dean of Melbourne the Very Reverend Dr Andreas Loewe, Archbishop of Melbourne the Most Reverend Dr Philip Freier and the Reverend Canon Christopher Carolane at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
L-R: Ordinands the Reverend Saurabh Simon, the Reverend Benjamin Clements, the Reverend Stacey Slater, the Reverend Kristen Dillon, the Reverend Louis Glazebrook and the Reverend Gavin Hansford at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
Dean of Melbourne the Very Reverend Dr Andreas Loewe at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Ishak Koroh at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
Archbishop Philip Freier ordains the Reverend Dave Chiswell at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Andrea Nagy at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
Archbishop Philip Freier ordains the Reverend Joshua Simon at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
Archbishop Philip Freier ordains the Reverend Changying Wang at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Lydia Thangadurai with family and Dean of Melbourne the Very Reverend Dr Andreas Loewe at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Gavin Hansford with attendees and Bishop Kate Prowd at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Samantha White at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Lydia Thangadurai at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Andrea Nagy at November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Elsa Carr at November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Sharon Footit presenting the ordinands to Archbishop Philip Freier at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
Archbishop Philip Freier ordains the Reverend Samantha White at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Right Reverend Kate Prowd, Assistant Bishop addressing the ordinands at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
Associate Professor Jane Freemantle OAM reading from Isaiah at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Most Reverend Dr Philip Freier administering the Eucharist to the Reverend Louis Glazebrook at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Kathleen Alleaume Ross, the Reverend Hoda Ameri and the Reverend Louis Glazebrook at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Lydia Thangadurai hugging the Reverend Kristen Dillon during the greeting at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate. 
The Reverend Ishak Koroh, the Reverend Andrea Nagy and the Reverend Hing Sing Ng at the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood. Image: Janine Eastgate.
Eighteen new priests were ordained on 26 November at St Paul’s Cathedral in front of family, friends, clergy and parishioners.
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For each one, this ceremony marked the culmination of years of study, training and preparation.
In her sermon, Assistant Bishop the Right Reverend Kate Prowd urged the ordinands to look to Jesus in their ministry as he was their compass.
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“Many times over during your life as priests, with all the plans and strategies in the world tucked under your arm perhaps, still you will need, in faith, to set out without quite knowing where you are heading,” she said.
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