Media releases

The brokenness of our world that sees the innocent suffer and the apparent victory of the strong over the weak should bring us back to this point of hope for our world: that God’s love, so fully present in Jesus, is open for us all today and every day.

A Christmas plea from Bishop Philip Huggins, Chair of the Social Responsibilities Committee of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne

Women clergy from all areas of Melbourne, from wider Victoria and from interstate will gather in St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne next Sunday, 9 December, at 2.30pm for a service celebrating 20 years of women priests in the Anglican Church of Australia.

The Anglican Archbishops of Melbourne and Brisbane, Dr Philip Freier and Dr Phillip Aspinall, have today announced that a Melbourne priest has been selected to lead the Southern Region of the Diocese of Brisbane.

Refugees resettled in Australia invariably speak with gratitude for their opportunity to find a new home after fleeing violence and trauma, none of it of their own making.

The Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier, is to visit Burma/Myanmar at the invitation of Archbishop Stephen Myint Oo to strengthen relations between the Churches of Australia and Myanmar.

Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier will ordain 15 men and women as Anglican priests at 11am on Saturday 24 November in St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne.

On behalf of the Anglican Church in Melbourne I welcome the Federal Government’s decision to set up a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

The Primate of the Anglican Church said today that the royal commission called by Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered an historic opportunity to protect Australian children.