Archbishop Philip Freier’s Christmas Message
Fruitful potential for advent as we carry our mourning
In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered
Serve where you’re needed, new priests told
NEW Melbourne priests have been urged to put aside ambition and serve where they are most needed at their November ordination.
Online synod largely positive experience: survey
ONLINE voting and no need to travel were both big hits with Melbourne’s Anglican synod representatives, according to a diocesan survey.
Synod forced online as lockdown disruption continues
Melbourne Synod has been forced into an entirely online format as a result of Victoria’s repeated coronavirus lockdowns.
Changes at top of Brotherhood of St Laurence
Executive Director steps aside, board reshuffled By Stephen Cauchi 8 June 2021 The Executive Director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Conny Lenneberg, has resigned for health reasons, while former school principal Stephen Newton has replaced Archbishop Philip Freier as Chair of the Brotherhood board in recent leadership changes at the organisation, which celebrates its 90th […]
Be COVID confident despite ‘long tail’ ahead: Archbishop Freier
The Church could look forward with “greater confidence” to withstanding COVID, even though there would be a “long tail” to the pandemic, according to Archbishop Philip Freier.
Following where God’s call leads
Ken Spackman, who stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Anglican Diocesan Corporation in August
Vote for Archbishop Freier’s successor as Primate deadlocked
The election of a new Anglican Primate of Australia to succeed Melbourne’s Archbishop Philip Freier is unresolved, with Archbishop Geoffrey Smith of Adelaide reportedly falling only one vote short in the House of Clergy in four of the seven ballots held by the Primatial Board of Electors in Sydney on 14 March.
Dr Freier to resign Primacy in March but to stay on as Archbishop of Melbourne
Dr Freier calls time after almost six years in the top job By Mark Brolly 25 November 2019 Melbourne’s Archbishop Philip Freier is to resign in March as Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia after almost six years in the role. Dr Freier is to remain Archbishop of Melbourne, a post he took up in […]
