The Anglican Diocese of St Arnaud was a

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of the Church of England in Australia (now the

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), in the Mallee and

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of north-west

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. It was created in 1926 out of the Diocese of Ballarat and named after the town of St Arnaud. In 1976 it was amalgamated into the

Diocese of Bendigo The Anglican Diocese of Bendigo is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia. It is situated in the Bendigo region of the state of Victoria, Australia. Its geographic remit extends from that part of Victoria that lies north of the Great Di ...

Bishops

Melville Charles James Melville Charles James (13 May 1877 – 4 April 1957) was an Australian Anglican bishop. Ordained in 1902, he was vicar of St Peter's Ballarat and then the Archdeacon of Maryborough, then Ballarat,"Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ...

(1926-50) *

Allen Ernest Winter Allen Ernest Winter (8 December 1903 – 8 July 1997) was an Australia Anglican bishop. He was the long-serving second bishop of the former Diocese of St Arnaud in north-west Victoria. Winter was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Unive ...

(1951-73) *

David Hubert Warner Shand David Hubert Warner Shand (6 April 1921 – 8 July 2011) was an Australian Anglican bishop. He was the third and last Bishop of St Arnaud. Early life Shand was born into an ecclesiastical family. His father was the Revd Canon Rupert Warner Sha ...

(1973-76), who was also the dean.

Archdeacons of St Arnaud

''Incomplete list'' *

Frederic Morgan-Payler Frederic Trafford Morgan Payler (1872–1954) was an Anglican priest in the last decade of the 19th century, and the first half of the 20th century. Morgan-Payler was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained deacon in 1896 and priest in ...

(1930-35) *HD Campbell (1935-38) (also Vicar of Christ Church) *Edmund Franklin Cooper (1939-40) (also Vicar of Christ Church) *R Gearing (1941-45) (also Vicar of Christ Church) *Ernest Joseph Lees (1945-54) * John Burnett (1965-68) * John Burnett (1970-72) *John Aylmer Leaver (1973-74) (also Vicar of Christ Church, 1966-74)

Cathedral

The cathedral church was Christ Church, St Arnaud, now known as Christ Church Old Cathedral. The church was designed by F. M. Moore and built in 1864 in a Victorian unpainted brick

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style.

References

Former Anglican dioceses in Australia History of Victoria (Australia) Anglican bishops of St Arnaud Archdeacons of St Arnaud {{Anglican-diocese-stub