The Anglican Diocese of Adelaide is a

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of the Anglican Church of Australia. It is centred in the city of

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

in the state of

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and extends along the eastern shore of the

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from the town of

Eudunda Eudunda is a rural town in South Australia, roughly 103 kilometres northeast of Adelaide, established in 1870 after settlers began moving into the area in the 1860s. As of the 2006 census, Eudunda had a population of 640. Eudunda is in the Regio ...

in the north to

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in the south. The diocesan cathedral is Saint Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide. The diocese was founded in 1847 with Augustus Short as the first bishop. The incumbent Archbishop of Adelaide since 2017 has been Geoffrey Smith, who has also been the Anglican Primate of Australia since 2020.

History

The diocese was founded by

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of 25 June 1847 and now forms part of the Province of South Australia, together with the

Diocese of Willochra The Diocese of Willochra is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia. It is situated in the northern and western parts of the state of South Australia, Australia. As part of the Province of South Australia it covers the Eyre Peninsula, ...

(1915) and the

Diocese of The Murray The Anglican Diocese of The Murray is located in the south-eastern region of South Australia. Founded in 1970 as part of the Province of South Australia, it takes in the Fleurieu Peninsula, Riverland, Adelaide Hills, Murraylands and the souther ...

(1969). Since 1970, the Bishop of Adelaide, as the senior bishop of the province (known as the

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), has borne the title of

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Jeffrey Driver Jeffrey William Driver (born 6 October 1951) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop. He is the former Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of South Australia in the Anglican Church of Australia. Early life Driver grew up in the New Sout ...

retired as Archbishop of Adelaide in 2016. Following a process of nomination, an election synod held in December 2016 resolved to invite Geoffrey Smith, then an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Brisbane, to be the 10th Archbishop of Adelaide. He was installed on 28 April 2017. On 7 April 2020, Smith was elected as the Primate of Australia, the first Archbishop of Adelaide to hold the office.

List of bishops and archbishops of Adelaide

Assistant bishops

John Vockler John Charles Vockler FODC (22 July 19246 February 2014) was an Australian bishop and Franciscan friar. He was originally a bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia but later become the primate of the Anglican Catholic Church, a Continuing Anglic ...

was consecrated

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in 1959. Lionel Renfrey was an assistant bishop of the diocese in 1988. The current assistant bishops in the diocese are: * Tim Harris - ordained (consecrated) as an assistant bishop and Bishop for Mission and Evangelism in 2011 and became bishop administrator during the 2016–2017 vacancy in the see. * Chris McLeod - ordained (consecrated) on 11 April 2015 as assistant bishop with special responsibility for ministry alongside Aboriginal people in South Australia and National Aboriginal Bishop. Appointed Dean of St Peter's Cathedral in 2021. *

Denise Ferguson Denise Ferguson is a New Zealand bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. She has served as an assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide since July 2019, and is the first woman to be appointed bishop in the Province of South Austr ...

- consecrated assistant bishop in July 2019, with responsibility for multicultural diversity in ministry, healthcare chaplaincies – covering both hospital and social service based care contexts – and ministry formation.

List of archdeacons

In 1866, there was one archdeaconry: W. J. Woodcock was Archdeacon of Adelaide.''The Clergy List for 1866'' (London: George Cox, 1866
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References

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Organisations based in Adelaide 1847 establishments in Australia Anglican Church of Australia Ecclesiastical Province of South Australia