YEAR BOOK 2002009999 Diocese of Newcastle New South Wales - Australia Including a report of the Second Session of the Forty-Ninth Synod held on 17-18 October at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music Published by the Diocesan Office, Level 3 134 King Street Newcastle NSW 2300 Telephone: (02) 4926 3733 Facsimile: (02) 4926 1968 ISSN: 0816-987X Published: December 2009 INDEX Abbreviations………………………………………………………………………………………………… 227-229 Appointments in the Diocese............................................................................ 71-74 Archdeacons................................................................................................... 4, 8 Duties of an Archdeacon ......................................................................... 5 Archdeaconries ............................................................................................... 4 Area Deaneries ............................................................................................... 4 Area Deans: Ministry of……………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 Names of ............................................................................................... 4 Bishops of Newcastle ...................................................................................... 3 Chaplains within the Diocese ........................................................................... 32-34 Clergy List Active .................................................................................................... 15-30 Ordinations and Movements of Clergy ..................................................... 31-32 Honorary Priests and Deacons ................................................................. 34 Permission to Officiate ............................................................................ 35-40 Dates of Orders...................................................................................... 41-43 Diocesan Council: Membership of ....................................................................................... 46-47 Report of ............................................................................................... 155-157 Diocese of Newcastle History of the ......................................................................................... 1-3 Area of .................................................................................................. 3 Boundaries of......................................................................................... 1 Directory................................................................................................ 10-14 Foundation of......................................................................................... 1 Institutions/Organisations and Schools within the..................................... 10-14 Population.............................................................................................. 3 Area Deans of ........................................................................................ 4 Cathedral Canons and Honorary Canons .................................................. 8 Examining Chaplains............................................................................... 8 Membership of Diocesan Committees ............................................................... 44-51 Ordinances passed by the 2009 Synod:............................................................. 81-131 • Constitution Alteration (Chapter IX) Canon Amendment Canon 2007 Assenting Ordinance 2009 • Constitution Amendment (Section 10) Canon 2007 Assenting Ordinance 2009 • Constitution Amendment (Section 54A) Canon 2007 Assenting Ordinance 2009 • Constitution Amendment (Provinces and Dioceses) Canon 2007 Assenting Ordinance 2009 • Holy Orders (Reception into Ministry) Canon 2004 Adoption Ordinance 2009 • Capital Needs Financing Ordinance 2009 • Newcastle School of Theology for Ministry Ordinance 2009 • Synod (Delegation of Powers) Ordinance 2009 • Synod Administration Ordinance 1998-2005 Amending Ordinance 2009 Ordinances passed by Diocesan Council sitting as Synod .................................... 132-154 • Bishop Election (Amendment) Ordinance 2008 • Samaritans Foundation - Diocese of Newcastle Amending Ordinance 2008 • Creation of Theological Education and Ministry Development Permanent Trust No.1 Ordinance 2009 • Diocesan Council Creation of Theological Education and Ministry Development Permanent Trust Ordinance 2009 • Creation of Theological Education and Ministry Development Permanent Trust No.2 Ordinance 2009 INDEX • Exceptional Purpose Expenses Permanent Trust Ordinance 2009 • The Tarro Church Endowment Fund Variation of Trusts Ordinance 2000 as amended 2009 • The Variation of Trusts (Youth and Children’s Outreach) Ordinance 2009 • The Variation of Trusts (Consolidation of Samaritans Bequests and Reserves) Ordinance 2009 • Bishop Tyrell Anglican College (Special Provisions) Ordinance 2009 • Ministry Development Fund Special Provisions Ordinance 2009 Ordinances (land sale) passed by Diocesan Council (Listed but not printed in Year 132 Book) • The Bateau Bay (80 Kingsford Smith Drive, Berkeley Vale) Land Sale Ordinance 2009 31 Ordinations .................................................................................................... Parochial Information (including statistics for 2008) .......................................... 161-226 President’s Charge to Synod - October 2009..................................................... 52-77 Religious Orders ............................................................................................ 10 Report of Proceedings of the Second Session of the Forty-Ninth Synod: Diocesan Council .................................................................................... 155-157 Trustees of Church Property .................................................................... 158-160 Resignations................................................................................................... 76 Resolutions of Synod – October 2009 ............................................................... 78-80 Rules for Promotion of Experimental Pastoral Areas to Provisional Districts 7 and Provisional Districts to Parishes ......................................................... Samaritans Foundation.................................................................................... 12-14 Trustees of Church Property for the Diocese of Newcastle Membership of ....................................................................................... 9 Report of ............................................................................................... 158-160 History of the Diocese Diocese of Newcastle The Diocese of Newcastle was founded by Royal Letters Patent in 1847. The boundaries of the new See were thus defined: From the Hawkesbury River in the South, to the 21st Parallel of Latitude on the North, and from the Pacific on the East, to the boundary of South Australia - the 141st degree of Longitude - on the West. On the 29th June, St Peter's Day, of that year, the Reverend William Tyrrell was consecrated in Westminster Abbey as the first Bishop and on the 30th January of the following year (Dr Tyrrell's forty first birthday) he was installed in the Cathedral at Newcastle. There were then 14 Clergy in the Diocese including two whom the Bishop had brought with him. In 1859 the area of the Diocese was reduced by the formation of the new Bishopric of Brisbane, all of the parent Diocese of Newcastle lying north of the Queensland border was embraced in the new See. Eight years later the creation of the Diocese of Grafton and Armidale wholly out of the parent Diocese fixed the Northern boundary. A further curtailment was effected when the Diocese of Bathurst was formed. In 1940 by arrangement with the Diocese of Grafton, the Newcastle Diocesan Boundary was slightly extended on the North so as to embrace the district of Heron's Creek, which previously was within the Diocese of Grafton but had always been worked from Newcastle. The boundaries of the Diocese as now existing are thus described: Commencing at a point on the coast where Cathie Lake empties into the ocean; thence by Cathie and Ten Mile Creeks to the top of Broken Bago Range; hence by that range to Mount Comboyne; thence by an imaginary line running westward to the intersection of the counties of Parry and Vernon; thence in a South Westerly direction, following the Liverpool Range to the Goulburn River; thence by the river to a point above the village of Bylong; thence by the mountain range in a Southerly direction to the Colo River at its junction with Putty Creek; thence by the Colo and Hawkesbury Rivers to the coast; thence in a Northerly direction to the point of commencement. Dr Tyrrell's Episcopate ended with his death in 1879. The 14 Clergy of 1847 had grown to 28. Dr Josiah Brown Pearson was the next occupant of the See. He resigned in June, 1889, after 9 year's labour, leaving a clergy roll of 44. In November 1890, The Right Reverend George Henry Stanton, DD., was transferred from North Queensland to the vacant See. He died 15 years later, on 4th December, 1905. John Francis Stretch, DD. some time Coadjutor-Bishop of Brisbane, and afterwards Dean of Newcastle, was elected as Dr Stanton's successor, at a special session of Synod, held in February, 1906. He occupied the See for 13 years, when failing health led him to resign as from June 30, 1919. To the very great regret, however, of all who knew him, he did not live to enjoy his retirement. His death occurred