OCEANIA ANGLICAN PRIMATES GATHER FOR FIRST OF PRE-LAMBETH CONFERENCE REGIONAL MEETINGS

OCEANIA ANGLICAN PRIMATES GATHER FOR FIRST OF PRE-LAMBETH CONFERENCE REGIONAL MEETINGS

Primates from the four Anglican provinces in the Oceania region gathering for their annual meeting in Fiji today will be joined by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Josiah Idowu-Fearon. The meeting is the first of several regional meetings of Primates being held over the next two years in the run-up to the Lambeth Conference in 2020.

TWO ASSISTANT BISHOPS FOR ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF NEWCASTLE ANNOUNCED

TWO ASSISTANT BISHOPS FOR ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF NEWCASTLE ANNOUNCED

The Diocesan Council has concurred that the Venerable Canon Sonia Roulston to become the Assistant Bishop (Inland Episcopate) to exercise episcopal ministry in the Upper Hunter, Maitland and Paterson Deaneries as well as working closely with the Diocesan Ministry Council and that the Venerable Charlie Murry to become the Assistant Bishop (Coastal Episcopate) to exercise episcopal ministry in the Central Coast, Lake Macquarie and Manning Deaneries as well as working closely with the Newcastle Anglican Church Corporation Board.