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While I can’t give you an exact date, it was in June 1961 that the first edition of Southern Cross, our diocesan magazine, was published. 🎂 Happy 65th birthday! SC was an initiative of Archbishop Hugh Gough, who saw the need. The previous diocesan magazine had closed in 1958.
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Looking inside the front cover you can see the trio who were responsible for most of the SC product in its early years: Ken Roughley, Helen Hall, and Peter Newall. The advisory panel consisted of all the bishops and archdeacons, plus the Vice Principal of Moore College.
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As always, interesting work from NCLS. I would add, though, that 2021 No Religion figures jumped partly because the option was moved from the end of the list to the top of the list of options. These kinds of tinkering with the pages format can have a big impact.
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Religious Switching in Australia: Insights on Christian affiliation available now!
While the number of Australians who select ‘no religion’ in the census has been increasing, many people later return or adopt religious affiliation.
Read the article: bit.ly/4vaAryy
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A classic example of this was adding the instruction ‘if no religion write none’ added in 1971. Guess what? Massive increase in ‘no religion’ response.
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And as you can see in this 1946 item, Magna Carta day was once regularly observed in city churches, on or close to 15 June. The idea for an annual commemoration came from the United States. R.G. Casey (Governor-General 1965-1969) was our first Ambassador to the USA.
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Happy Magna Carta day! The famous charter of English liberties was granted on 15 June 1215. Did you know, you can see some of the “The Soil of Freedom” at St John's Darlinghurst? (Try getting that past Border Patrol these days…)
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W. M. Cowper’s 1810 birthplace is circled
In the left picture. There was an orange tree in the garden, planted by Richard Johnson. He died 14 June 1902 in the old Deanery (next to his beloved Cathedral, right picture). The later Church House was a different building.
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124 years ago today: 14 June 1902, the end of an era for @SydneyCathedral: the death, at the age of 97, of the Very Rev. William Macquarie Cowper, having served as first Dean of Sydney for 44 years. Born in the parsonage of Richard and Mary Johnson, lived to see Federation.
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Cowper was also one of the last clergymen still receiving a Government stipend, thanks to a grandfathering clause in the 1862 legislation that prohibited such payments.
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Someone please go to St Basil's Anglican Church (Artarmon, Sydney) and take good photos of the stained glass
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AHS congratulates the Rt Rev Robert Forsyth on today's 26th anniversary of consecration (13 June 2000) @SydneyCathedral as Assistant Bishop (Bishop of South Sydney 2000-2015). Rector of St Barnabas' Broadway 1983-2000. Thank you for your service to the Diocese. @Gresley
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And a photo from the day itself! Images in these posts from Anglican Media (Southern Cross May-July 2000), held by Moore Theological College.
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13 June 1835: Letters Patent were published re-organising the unwieldy Diocese of Calcutta. The Presidency of Madras, and the Archdeaconry of Ceylon, were to be organised into a new Diocese of Madras, effective 10 October 1835. Australia also got a mention...
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The Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land were also removed from the Diocese of Calcutta. No further provision was made for their oversight, but plans were already afoot for a Diocese of Australia. The Bishop of Calcutta would now become Metropolitan of India.
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An important milestone is reached: today, 12 June 2026, our Archbishop Kanishka Raffel overtakes Bishop Alfred Barry in length of service leading our Diocese. Ad multos annos! Barry (1884-1889) resumes his place as our shortest-serving diocesan.
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Watkin Tench tells us “the attendance on divine service was very full”; another source that “every person in the settlement attended at church”. Richard Johnson preached from Proverbs 8:15 ‘By me kings reign’ “suited to an occasion at once so full of gratitude and solemnity”.
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Very fitting as we return to work from a long weekend to note that today is the 236th anniversary (9 June 1790) of the first public holiday in New South Wales, "a general thanksgiving to Almighty God, for his Majesty's recovery, and happy restoration to his family and subjects".
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At our quarterly meeting on Saturday it was lovely to be able to congratulate long-time AHS member Mr Jack Brook on the award of a Medal in the Order of Australia for services to community history in this year’s Australia Day Honours List. blacktownmemories.recollect.…
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Photo courtesy of the Blacktown and District Historical Society FB page. The interview is part of Western Sydney University’s oral history collection.
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