2022 in pictures | The Melbourne Anglican
As the year winds to a close, enjoy this selection of our favourite images from The Melbourne Anglican in 2022.
‘Gentler, more inclusive church’: Female priests mark 30 years of ordination
Clergy from across the country have joined at St Paul’s Cathedral on 13 December to remember the first three priestly ordination services held for women ordinands at the cathedral in 1992.
Thirty years on, the church is richer for women’s ordination
In 1992, 92 women were ordained as priests around Australia. I was among them.
From Lutheran in Hungary to Anglican in the Mornington Peninsula: The Reverend Andrea Nagy’s journey to ordination
The first time she set foot in Australia, the Reverend Andrea Nagy was 20 years old. Accompanied by her husband and their toddler daughter, she had just arrived from an Austrian refugee camp.
‘God’s called me to stand up’: Professor Anne Pattel-Gray
“Everything you do in life you’ve gotta fight, you’ve gotta fight for every step that you take,” Professor Anne Pattel-Gray says of growing up Indigenous in Queensland.
Ordinations to the priesthood 2022, Anglican Diocese of Melbourne | In pictures
All the key images from the November 2022 Anglican Diocese of Melbourne ordinations to the priesthood.
‘It is Christ who has called you’: Eighteen new priests ordained
The Right Reverend Kate Prowd, Assistant Bishop today reminisced on her own ordination 30 years ago in a sermon to new priests.
‘Hidden and invisible’ family violence victims remembered at Walk
“The change we want to see is a society where women are treated equally and respectfully and where gender stereotypes are not as rigid,” Brotherhood of St Laurence chaplain the Reverend Scott Holmes said.
Global group to help women church planters launched in Australia
This collective hopes to help women who are interested in church planting.
Journeying with Jesus in the ‘messy middle’: Kate Boyd
“I’m probably more convicted about more things now, but I am less certain about all of them,” Texan writer and theology student Kate Boyd says.