The Diocese of Sydney is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia. The majority of the diocese is Evangelical and low church in tradition and committed to Reformed and Calvinist theology.
The diocese stretches from Lithgow in the west, the Hawkesbury River in the north and much of the New South Wales south coast. It encompasses Australia's largest city as well as the city of Wollongong. It is, geographically, among the larger Anglican dioces...
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The Diocese of Sydney is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia. The majority of the diocese is Evangelical and low church in tradition and committed to Reformed and Calvinist theology.
The diocese stretches from Lithgow in the west, the Hawkesbury River in the north and much of the New South Wales south coast. It encompasses Australia's largest city as well as the city of Wollongong. It is, geographically, among the larger Anglican dioceses in the world, though the smallest diocese in the state of New South Wales and one of the smaller dioceses in Australia. Around fifty percent of Australian Anglicans live in the Diocese of Sydney.
The Anglican ministry has been present in Australia since 1788. An Evangelical cleric, the Reverend Richard Johnson, was the first chaplain to the new colony of New South Wales and was sponsored by the London Missionary Society, a precursor of the Church Missionary Society. Other chaplains, notably Samuel Marsden and William Cowper, were also sent....
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