INTERNAL TERRITORIES
Federal territories within the boundaries of the Commonwealth included :
- the Federal Capital Territory of Canberra since 1911/1927
- the Northern Territory since 1911
EXTERNAL TERRITORIES
Federal territories outside the boundaries of the Commonwealth included :
- Australian Antarctic Territory since 1933/1936
- Australian New Guinea since 1902/1942 (1)
- Norfolk Island since 1913/1914
(1) Until 1942 Australian New Guinea consisted of two separate units :
- the Territory of Papua since 1902/1906
- the Mandated Territory of New Guinea since 1914/1919
MINISTERS IN CHARGE OF THE TERRITORIES
1912 - 1916 The Ministers of Home Affairs
Administrator of the Federal Territories at the Ministry of
Home Affairs.
1912 - 1916 Walter David Bingle 1861 - 1928
1916 : Separate department for the Territories established
Ministers for the Territories
1916 - 1928 The Ministers of Home Affairs
Heads of the Department of Home and Territories
1916 - 1921 Atlee Arthur Hunt 1864 - 1935
1921 - 1928 John Gilbert McLaren 1871 - 1958
1928 William James Clemens 1873 - 1941
1928 : Separate department for Territories abolished
1928 - 1932 The Ministers of Home Affairs
Administrators of the Federal Territories at the Ministry of
Home Affairs.
1928 William James Clemens s.a.
1929 - 1932 P. E. Dean
Ministers in charge of the Territories
1932 - 1934 Charles William Clanan Marr 1880 - 1960
1934 Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson 1875 - 1952
1934 - 1937 Sir George Foster Pearce 1870 - 1952
1937 - 1938 William Morris Hughes 1864 - 1952
1938 : Internal Territories under the Ministry of the InteriorMinisters without Portfolio administrating the External Territories
1938 John Arthur Perkins 1878 - 1954
1938 - 1939 Eric John Harrison 1892 - 1974
1939 - 1940 John Arthur Perkins (2x)
Minister without Portfolio in charge of the External Territories
1940 Horace Keyworth Nock 1879 - 1958
1940 - 1941 Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies (1894 - 1978)
in charge of External Territories
Minister assisting the Prime Minister dealing with the
External Territories
1940 - 1941 Thomas Joseph Collins 1886 - 1945
Ministers for External Territories
1941 Allan McKenzie McDonald 1888 - 1953
1941 - 1943 James Mackintosh Fraser 1890 - 1961
1943 - 1949 Edward John Ward 1889 - 1963
Anglicanism reached Australia in 1788, when the first English convict settlement
was established at Sydney in New South Wales and a first mass was said.
Initially the few settlements and communities were under the care of local chaplains
who acted under the distant authority of the Archbishops of Canterbury.
But as their number gradually increased, it soon became necessary to establish an
Australian central authority and in 1825 the island became an archdeaconry of the
Indian Diocese of Calcutta.
This situation lasted until 1836, when Australia became a separate Diocese [Bishop
1836 - 1847 : William Grant Broughton (1788 - 1853)]. In 1847 this initial diocese
was divided into four new dioceses (Adelaide, Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney - s.
b.) which were later further subdivided.
Metropolitans of the Australian Provinces
From 1847 onwards the Australian dioceses were regrouped into church provinces.
These were headed by Metropolitans, usually the incumbents of the initial diocese
of the province, who assumed the title of "Presiding Bishop" or - since 1897 - of
"Archbishop of (their diocese)".
Primates of Australia
Since 1872 all Australian dioceses were under the overall leadership of a "Primate
of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania" (usually - but not always - the
Metropolitans of New South Wales)
1872 - 1933 The Bishops and Archbishops of Sydney,
Metropolitans of New South Wales s.b.
1933 - 1946 Henry Frewen Le Fanu, Archbishop of Perth
and Metropolitan of Western Australia,
(*1933 - 1935) 1870 - 1946
See ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN AUSTRALIA 1848 - 1945 for more on church history
(to be added)
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PROVINCE OF NEW SOUTH WALES
The Province of New South Wales was established in 1847, when the initial Diocese
of Australia was partitioned.
It then included two dioceses :
- Sydney (also including the Northern Territoy until 18..)
- Newcastle (also including Queensland until 1859)
Later other dioceses were detached :
- 1863 : Goulburn (detached from Sydney)
- 1867 : Grafton-and-Armidale (detached from Newcastle)
- 1869 : Bathurst (detached from Sydney)
- 1884 : Severina (deatched from Bathurst and Goulburn)
Metropolitans of the Province of New South Wales
(Also Primates of Australia 1872 - 1933)
Bishops of Sydney and Presiding Bishops of the Province
1847 - 1853 William Grant Broughton, before Bishop of
Australia s.a.
1854 - 1882 Frederic Barker, first Primate of Australia
since 1872 1808 - 1882
1882 - 1884 none
1884 - 1889 Alfred Barry 1826 - 1910
1890 - 1897 William Saumarez Smith 1836 - 1909
Archbishops of Sydney
1897 - 1909 William Saumarez Smith s.a.
1909 - 1933 John Charles Wright (Primate from 1910)
1934 - 1958 Howard West Kilvinton Mowll (Primate from
1947) 1890 - 1958
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Queensland was part of the Diocese of Newcastle (s.a.) until 1859 when the Giocese
of Brisbane was established.
Later other dioceses were detached from Brisbane :
- 1878 : North Queensland
- 1892 : Rockhampton
- 1900 : Carpentaria (detached from North Queensland and also expanded with the
Northern Territory, till then part of the Diocese of Adelaide - s.b.)
In 1905 the 4 dioceses and the Diocese of New Guinea were regrouped in the Province
of Queensland.
Bishop of Newcastle also in charge of Queensland
1847 -1859 William Tyrrell, continued as Bishop of
Newcastle until 1879 1807 - 1879
Bishops of the dioceses existing before the formation of the Province in 1905Bishops of Brisbane
1859 - 1874 Edward Wyndham Tufnell 1814 - 1896
1875 - 1884 Mathew Blagden Hale 1811 - 1895
1885 - 1903 William Thomas Thornhill Webber 1837 - 1903
1904 - 1905 St. Clair George Alfred Donaldson 1863 - 1935
Bishops of North Queensland
1879 - 1890 George Henry Stanton 1835 - 1905
1891 - Christoher George Barlow 1858 - 1915
1902 - 1913 George Horsfall Frodsham 1863 - 1937
Bishop of Rockhampton
1892 - 1908 Nathaniel Dawes 1843 - 1910
Bishop of Carpentaria
1900 - 1915 Gilbert White 1859 - 1933
Archbishops of Brisbane and Metropolitans of Queensland
1905 - 1921 St. Clair George Alfred Donaldson s.a.
1921 - 1933 Gerald Sharp 1865 - 1933
1934 - 1943 John William Charles Wand 1885 - 1977
1943 - 1962 Sir (1962) Reginald Charles Halse 1881 - 1962
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PROVINCE OF VICTORIA
The Diocese of Melbourne was established in 1847 when the Diocese of Australia was
partioned.
Later other dioceses were detached from Melbourne :
- 1875 : Ballarat
- 1901 : Bendigo
Gippsland
Wangaratta
In 1905 the 4 dioceses were regrouped in the Province of Victoria, to which a 5th
diocese (St. Arnaud - detached from Bendigo) was added in 1926.
Bishops of the dioceses existing before the formation of the Province in 1905Bishops of Melbourne
1847 - 1875 Charles Perry 1807 - 1891
1876 - 1886 James Moorhouse 1826 - 1915
1886 - 1902 Fiels Flowers Goe 1832 - 1910
1903 - 1905 Henry Lowther Clarke 1850 - 1926
Bishops of Ballarat
1875 - 1900 Samuel Thornton 1835 - 1917
1900 - 1915 Arthur Vincent Green 1857 - 1944
Bishop of Bendigo
1902 - 1906 Henry Archdall Langley 1844 - 1906
Bishop of Gippsland
1902 - 1917 Arthur Wellesley Pain
Bishop of Wangaratta
1902 - 1927 Thomas Henry Armstrong 1857 - 1930
Archbishops of Melbourne and Metrpoloitans of Victoria
1905 - 1920 Henry Lowther Clarke s.a.
1921 - 1929 Harrington Clare Lees 1870 - 1929
1929 - 1941 Frederick Waldegrave Head 1874 - 1941
1942 - 1856 Joseph John Booth 1886 - 1965
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PROVINCE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
In 1847 the different Anglican church administrations existing in Western Australia
were included in the new Diocese of Adelaide (s.b.) and placed under the authority
of an Archdeacon. (1)
The region was separated from Adelaide in 1856 to form the new Diocese of Perth,
from which were later detached :
- 1904 : Bunbury
- 1909 : North West Australia
- 1914 : Kalgoorlie
In 1914 the 4 dioceses were regrouped in the Province of Western Australia.
(1) Before that the Anglican church in Western Australia had been without a
central authority, each settlement acting independently under the authority
of local governmental, military or missionary chaplains or even - in the
earliest times - of laymen.
Bishops of the dioceses existing before the formation of the Province in 1914Bishops of Perth
1856 - 1875 Matthew Blagden Hale s.a.
1876 - 1893 Henry Hutton Parry 1826 - 1893
1894 - 1914 Charles Owen Leaver Riley 1854 - 1929
Bishop of Bunbury
1901 - 1917 Frederick William Goldsmith 1853 - 1932
Bishop of North West Australia
1910 - 1927 Gerard Trower 1860 - 1928
Bishop of Kalgoorlie
1914 - 1918 Cyril Henry Golding-Bird
Archbishops of Perth and Metropolitans of Western Australia
1914 - 1929 Charles Owen Leaver Riley s.a.
1929 - 1946 Henry Frewen Le Fanu, since 1933 also
Primate of Australia (*1933 - 1935) s.a.
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EXTRA PROVINCIAL DIOCESES
Three dioceses remained outside the provincial structure.
TASMANIA
The island of Tasmania was an archdeaconry of the Diocese of Australia until 1842,
when it became a separate diocese.
Bishops
1842 - 1863 Francis Russell Nixon 1803 - 1879
1864 - 1882 Charles Henry Bromby 1814 - 1907
1883 - 1888 Daniel Fox Sandford 1831 - 1906
1889 - 1901 Henry Hutchinson Montgomery 1847 - 1932
1902 - 1914 John Edward Mercer 1857 - 1922
1914 - 1919 Reginald Stephen 1860 - 1956
1919 - 1943 Robert Snowdon Hay 1867 - 1943
1944 - 1962 Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick 1894 - 1978
THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DIOCESES OF ADELAIDE AND WILLOCHRA
The Diocese of Adelaide was founded in 1847.
It covered South Australia and for a period also Western Australia (1847 - 1856,
and the Northern Territory (18.. - 1900) (s.a.)
In 1915 its northern part became the new Diocese of Willochra.
Bishops of Adelaide
1847 - 1882 Augustus Short 1802 - 1883
1883 - 1894 George Wyndham Kennion 1845 - 1922
1895 - 1905 John Reginald Harmer 1857 - 1944
1906 - 1940 Arthur Nutter Thomas 1869 - 1954
1941 - 1956 Bryan Percival Robin 1887 - 1969
Bishops of Willochra
1915 - 1925 Gilbert White s.a.
1926 - 1958 Ricahrd Thomas 1880 - 1958
