Anglican Diocese of Grafton

For the Catholic church in the area, see Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore.

Diocese of Grafton
Location
Ecclesiastical province	New South Wales
Coordinates	30°S 153°E
Statistics
Parishes	28
Churches	68
Schools	5
Information
Cathedral	Cathedral Church of Christ the King, commonly referred to as Christ Church Cathedral. https://www.graftoncathedral.org.au/
Current leadership
Bishop	Bishop of Grafton Rt Rev Dr Murray Harvey
Website
graftondiocese.org.au

The Anglican Diocese of Grafton is one of the 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese is located in north-east New South Wales and covers the area from the Queensland border to Port Macquarie in the south and west to the Great Dividing Range.

Created in 1914 as a result of a division of the previous Diocese of Grafton and Armidale it has 28 parishes, an active environment commission and an Anglicare organisation seeking to support community and social needs within the diocese. The diocesan cathedral church is the Cathedral Church of Christ the King in Grafton.

The Church of St Thomas at Port Macquarie was built by an early Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane. It is the fifth oldest church building in Australia.

The current bishop of Grafton, Murray Harvey, is the 12th bishop of the diocese. He was installed in Christ Church Cathedral, Grafton, on 29 September 2018.

Sarah Macneil become the first woman to lead an Australian diocese as bishop. Macneil announced her resignation on 17 November 2017, to be effective from 3 March 2018.

The bishop is based in Grafton.

Bishops

Bishops of Grafton
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1914	1921	Cecil Druitt
1921	1938	John William Ashton
1938	1945	William Henry Webster Stevenson
1946	1955	Christopher Storrs
1956	1961	Kenneth John Clements	Translated to Canberra and Goulburn
1961	1973	Gordon Arthur
1973	1985	Donald Shearman	Previously Bishop of Rockhampton
1985	1998	Bruce Allen Schultz	Previously Dean of Grafton
1998	2003	Philip Huggins	Previously an Assistant Bishop of Perth; became an Assistant Bishop of Melbourne
2003	2013	Keith Slater
2014	2018	Sarah Macneil
2018	present	Murray Harvey

Cathedral

The cathedral church is Christ Church Cathedral in Grafton which was designed by John Horbury Hunt and commenced in 1884 during the episcopacy of Bishop Turner and completed to its present stage in 1937. The building is of brick construction in a Gothic Revival style with towering arches and ornate stained glass windows. An organ was installed in 1884 by George Fincham of Melbourne which was replaced in 1992 by a 1903 instrument brought from London by Peter D.G. Jewkes Pty Ltd of Sydney.

The cathedral is a National Trust listed building.

Deans of Grafton

The following individuals have served as Deans of Grafton:

Ordinal	Name	Term start	Term end	Notes
1	Arthur Edward Warr	1949	1965
2	Roderick William Bowie	1966	1968
3	Henry St John Edwards	1969	1978
4	Bruce Allan Schultz	1979	1983	Afterwards Bishop of Grafton, 1985
5	Richard Warwick Hurford	1983	1997	Later Bishop of Bathurst, 2001
6	Peter Charles Catt	1997	2007	Afterwards Dean of Brisbane, 2008
7	Donald Kingsley Kirk	2007	2017	Later Bishop of Riverina, 2019
8	Gregory Charles Jenks	2017	current

Church schools

The diocese also has a number of church-based schools providing education across a range of age groups.

Founded	School	Enrollment	Years	Location
1981	Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School	1100	P-12	Tweed Heads
1993	Bishop Druitt College	1192	K-12	Coffs Harbour
1998	Emmanuel Anglican College	388	P-12	Ballina
1998	Clarence Valley Anglican School	297	P-12	Grafton
2002	St Columba Anglican School	680	P-12	Port Macquarie

External links

• Diocese of Grafton website