Retirement ages for clergy could be abolished: Review
CLERGY’S retirement age would be abolished under proposed changes to the legislation that governs their employment by the diocese, a review group has told synod.
Disability access back on the agenda after decade delay
DISABILITY advocates hope for an invigoration of stalled plans to ensure the diocese’s public places have disabled access, after a motion passed late Saturday by Anglican Diocese of Melbourne’s synod.
‘We … must speak out’: Synod condemns Uighur genocide
A motion to condemn the genocide of Uighur Muslims by the Chinese Communist Party sparked debate during Saturday’s session of the 2021 Melbourne Synod.
Quotas were also proposed in several pieces of legislation coming to the 2021 synod and in several more for the 2022 synod.
Gender quotas would be a step towards diversity and equality in the Anglican Church, but could risk excluding other voices of diversity, Melbourne synod has heard.
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.
Following where God’s call leads
Ken Spackman, who stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Anglican Diocesan Corporation in August
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 […]
Same-sex marriage the ‘issue of our times’ but many others face Church: Dr Freier
Same-sex marriage and the blessing of same-sex civil marriages is “the issue of our times” for the Anglican Church, Melbourne’s Archbishop Philip Freier has told the opening session of his annual diocesan synod, and seems to be the one that most polarises Christian denominations despite the many other challenges that properly concern Christians.
Church to get worse before recovering, Synod told
The Anglican Church has accepted a blueprint for its future, with the its lead author predicting that the Church would decline further before it recovered.
