What Anglican provinces and/or churches are represented on CF?

[Rachel96]

Anglican Church in Australia. I'm from the Diocese of Adelaide (with strong family connections to Willochra where my grandfather ministered for many years) but I live in Melbourne 8 months of the year for university - I have no idea which episcopate I'm in.

 

[Targaryen]

Anglican Church in Australia. I'm from the Diocese of Adelaide (with strong family connections to Willochra where my grandfather ministered for many years) but I live in Melbourne 8 months of the year for university - I have no idea which episcopate I'm in.

then you're in the Diocese of Melbourne. Anglican Diocese of Melbourne

 

[Paidiske]

The diocese of Melbourne is sub-divided into three "areas of episcopal care," each overseen by an assistant bishop. Rachel, broadly, if you're in the inner city, you're in Marmingatha (overseen by Bishop Genieve), if you're in the south-east you're in Jumbunna (overseen by Bishop Paul) and if you're in the north-west you're in Oodthenong (overseen by Bishop Philip). But the boundaries are weird, so if you'd really like to know, let me know where you are and I'll tell you!

 

[Sean611]

I'm a confirmed Episcopalian (USA) and still on the books as such and it is how I voted. That said, I haven't attended services there in about 1.5 years and have just started attending a confessional Lutheran parish.

 

[Rachel96]

The diocese of Melbourne is sub-divided into three "areas of episcopal care," each overseen by an assistant bishop. Rachel, broadly, if you're in the inner city, you're in Marmingatha (overseen by Bishop Genieve), if you're in the south-east you're in Jumbunna (overseen by Bishop Paul) and if you're in the north-west you're in Oodthenong (overseen by Bishop Philip). But the boundaries are weird, so if you'd really like to know, let me know where you are and I'll tell you!

I think it would be Jumbunna then - I've heard Bishop Paul mentioned and I'm definitely SE of the city.

then you're in the Diocese of Melbourne. Anglican Diocese of Melbourne

I'd worked out that much but as Paidiske explained, Melbourne is divided into three sub-diocese things each with their own bishop. I've yet to work out how much each of the sub-diocese things functions as their own diocese and how much it's more a whole-Melbourne thing, given they have their own bishops... and also the population of Melbourne alone is three times that of South Australia as a whole!

 

[Paidiske]

I'm also in Jumbunna. If you'd ever like to meet up, PM me and let me know.

The "areas of episcopal care" don't really function as dioceses at all, it's just a convenient way to work out which assistant bishop looks after which parishes.

 

[Targaryen]

I've never heard of an urban area, like I would assume most of the Diocese of Melbourne is, needing suffragans to function properly. In Canada, suffragans exist but they are in dioceses that are usually defined by large remotely accessible parishes, case in point the Diocese of the Arctic.

 

[Arcangl86]

I've never heard of an urban area, like I would assume most of the Diocese of Melbourne is, needing suffragans to function properly. In Canada, suffragans exist but they are in dioceses that are usually defined by large remotely accessible parishes, case in point the Diocese of the Arctic.

There are quite a few geographically small dioceses that have multiple bishops in the US. One of the biggest issues is episcopal visitation.

 

[Paidiske]

Yes, I'm lucky to have a bishop at a service once a year. If we only had one bishop across our close to 300 parishes and authorised congregations, I hate to think how seldom we'd see them!

 

[Rachel96]

I don't think there's been a bishop visit my parish since I arrived in Melbourne, but I've been to services in other parishes (and once at the Cathedral) that's had a bishop there. I suppose if you're going to a "special event"...

I'm just trying to think if the bishop's visited my parish in Adelaide recently, and I think it's once in the last two years, plus once for a confirmation since I've been in Melbourne - but we didn't have a bishop for a while there. Before I tried to think about it, I thought we'd seen the bishop much more frequently, but I think that's just because a couple of the previous bishops of Willochra are family friends so I'm definitely in the presence of "a bishop" much more when I'm in Adelaide.

I've never heard of an urban area, like I would assume most of the Diocese of Melbourne is, needing suffragans to function properly. In Canada, suffragans exist but they are in dioceses that are usually defined by large remotely accessible parishes, case in point the Diocese of the Arctic.

I hadn't heard of the idea before I came to Melbourne but it makes a certain amount of sense the way Paidiske explains it. Melbourne is just VERY big and it seems the three sub-divisions are a way of easily giving areas of responsibility in the bishop-team.