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Anglican Board Of Mission – Australia
The Anglican Board of Mission – Australia (ABM), formerly Australasian Board of Missions and Australian Board of Missions, is the national mission agency of the Anglican Church of Australia. In its earliest form, it was established in 1850. History The Church of the Province of New Zealand was not formed until 1858. In 1850, George Selwyn, the Bishop of New Zealand, approached his fellow Australasian bishops for funds to buy a boat for evangelisation of the islands of Melanesia, which then formed part of his diocese by virtue of a clerical error in the letters patent. That missionary endeavour became the Melanesian Mission, but also led to the establishment of the Australasian Board of Missions. In 1872 (by which time New Zealand was a separate province) the Australasian Board of Missions was constituted as a board of the church by a canon of General Synod. At that point the board changed its name to the Australian Board of Missions. It was only in 1872 that an administ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church Of Australia
The Anglican Church of Australia, originally known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania, is a Christian church in Australia and an autonomous church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. In 2016, responding to a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Anglican Studies, ''Journal of Anglican Studies'' by Cambridge University Press, the Anglican Church of Australia reported that it had 4,865,328 total baptised members. According to the 2021 Australian census, 2021 Census, 2.5 million Australians (9.8% of the population) self-identified as Anglicans. It is the second largest church in Australia after the Roman Catholicism in Australia, Roman Catholic Church. For much of Australian history since the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788, the church was the largest religious denomination. In recent times, however, Anglicanism in Australia has mirrored the steep decline in church membership and attendance experienced in many first-world nations. The church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Shearman
Donald Norman Shearman (6 February 1926–2019) was an Australian Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Rockhampton from 1963 to 1971 and Bishop of Grafton from 1973 to 1985. In 2004, a church tribunal found Shearman guilty of misconduct for sexually abusing a schoolgirl while serving as a boarding master at an Anglican hostel in Forbes, New South Wales, in the 1950s. On 25 August 2004, Shearman became the first member of the clergy in the Anglican Church of Australia to be removed from holy orders as a result of that finding. Shearman was educated at Orange High School. After World War II service with the Royal Australian Air Force he studied for the priesthood at St John's Theological College, Morpeth. Ordained in 1950, his first post was a curacy at Dubbo. Later he was warden of St John's Hostel, Forbes, then rector of Coonabarabran. His last post before being ordained to the episcopate was as Archdeacon of Mildura. In 1963 he became Bishop of Rockhampton, (he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trochus
''Trochus'' is a genus of medium-to large-sized, top-shaped sea snails with an operculum, of the family Trochidae, the top snails.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Trochus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138598 on 5 December 2012 When the word "trochus" or "Trochus" is used in reference to fishing sea snails for commercial purposes, the usual species targeted is ''Tectus niloticus'', which is valued for its nacre or mother of pearl layer, which was traditionally made into items such as pearl buttons and jewelry. ''Tectus niloticus'' is no longer classified as a ''Trochus'' species, and it is no longer classified in the family Trochidae; it is now placed in the family Tegulidae. History The name ''Trochus'', according to P. FischerP. Fischer. Monog. Genre Troque, in Kiener's Coquilles Vivantes, Paris, 1880. was used for the first time by Guillaume Rondelet, in 1558, who assembled under thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tranby, Glebe
Tranby is heritage-listed former residence located at 13 Mansfield Street in Glebe, Sydney.New South Wales. It was designed by A. L. & G. McCredie and built from 1858 to 1910, and is also known as Toxteth Cottage. Since 1958 the house and grounds have been the main campus of Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education and Training, and they are owned by Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History History of the area The Leichhardt area was originally inhabited by the Wangal clan of Aboriginal people. After the colonisation of Australia in 1788, diseases such as smallpox, along with the loss of their hunting grounds, caused huge reductions in their numbers, and they moved further inland. Since European settlement the foreshores of Blackwattle Bay and Rozelle Bay have developed a unique maritime, industrial and residential character - a character which continues to evolve as areas which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christ Church St Laurence
Christ Church St Laurence is an Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican church (building), church located at 814 George Street, Sydney, George Street, near Central railway station, Sydney, Central railway station and Haymarket, in City of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the principal centre of Anglo-Catholic worship in the city and Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Diocese of Sydney, where the Anglicanism is predominantly Evangelical Anglicanism, Evangelical in character. Anglo-Catholicism is manifested at Christ Church St Laurence by an emphasis on the sacraments, ritual, music and social action, all of which have been prominent features of Anglo-Catholicism since the 19th century. The parish dates from 1838 and the church building from 1845. It was the first Anglican church in the city to be consecrated by a bishop and is the second-oldest of the city's Anglican church buildings still in use. The first architect was Henry Robertson, who was soon succeeded by Edmund Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hope (priest)
John Hope (5 January 1891 – 21 June 1971) was an Anglican priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition in Sydney, Australia. Early life and family Born in Strathfield, the son of Charles Hope, a wool broker with Goldsborough Mort & Co, Hope was the youngest of 10 children. His ancestors included the Rev Thomas Hassall, the first Australian resident to seek ordination in the Anglican Church and the Rev Samuel Marsden, an early chaplain in Sydney and the founder of the Anglican Church in New Zealand. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School. Early ministry Hope completed his theological training at Melbourne's St John's College before Archbishop Wright of Sydney made him a deacon in 1914 and ordained him a priest in 1916. As curate at the gentrified St Jude's Church, Randwick, the future Christian Socialist did not see eye to eye with many of the parishioners and the rector of St Jude's arranged a more suitable appointment for him as curate of the Anglo-Catholic inner-city Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabbage Tree Island, New South Wales
Cabbage Tree Island is a locality in Ballina Shire located in the Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales. It is a mostly Aboriginal community. History The island was reportedly settled by three Aboriginal pioneers in 1885, including "Bubba" Cook, ancestor of many islanders today. The islanders engaged in cane farming and had their own food gardens, reportedly living self-sufficiently. In 1893 the island was designated an Aboriginal reserve, with Aboriginal people moving there from the region, and Cabbage Tree School opening. In 1911 a government manager was installed, and the island was then run by various government Aboriginal welfare agencies until the mid-1970s. The manager's permission was required in some periods to leave the island. The welfare agencies provided regular food rations. Many of the islanders worked as cane cutters or other cane labourers. Young women often went to work as domestic servants in Sydney. In the late twentieth century government manageme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moa Island (Queensland)
Moa Island, also called Banks Island, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago that is located north of Thursday Island in the Banks Channel of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. It is also a locality within the Torres Strait Island Region local government area. This island is the largest within the "Near Western" group. It has two towns, Kubin on the south-west coast and St Pauls on the east coast, which are connected by bitumen and a gravel road. In the , Moa Island had a population of 432 people. Geography Moa Island is a part of the Torres Strait's western island group and is the second largest island in the Torres Strait. There are 2 communities on Moa: Kubin community, located on the southern side of the island, and St Paul's community, located to the north. The communities are connected by a road. History The Mualgal /muwal̪gal̪/ people traditionally formed two groups, the southern Italgal /ital̪gal̪/ and the northern Mualgal, and are the tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockhart River Mission
Lockhart River is a town in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River and a coastal locality split between the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River and the Shire of Cook, on the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. The town is an Aboriginal community. From 1924 to 1967, the Lockhart River Mission was run by the Anglican Church. In the , the locality of Lockhart River had a population of 640 people. Geography Lockhart River is a coastal Aboriginal community situated on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. The population consists mostly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, whose ancestors were forcibly moved to the area beginning in 1924. The locality includes a number of islands off the east coast: Chapman Island, Lloyd Island, Rocky Island, Sherrard Island, and Sunter Island (all of which are in the Aboriginal Shire of Lockhart River). It is north by road from Cairns and approximately by road north of Brisbane. Lockhart River is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia (continent), Australia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 List of Aboriginal Australian group names, language-based groups. In the past, Aboriginal people lived over large sections of the continental shelf. They were isolated on many of the smaller offshore islands and Tasmania when the land was inundated at the start of the Holocene Interglacial, inter-glacial period, about 11,700 years ago. Despite this, Aboriginal people maintained extensive networks within the continent and certain groups maintained relationships with Torres Strait Islanders and the Makassar people, Makassar people of modern-day Indonesia. Over the millennia, Aboriginal people developed complex trade networks, inter-cultural relationships, law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border, a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, on its southern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest list of island countries, island country, with an area of . The nation was split in the 1880s between German New Guinea in the North and the Territory of Papua, British Territory of Papua in the South, the latter of which was ceded to Australia in 1902. All of present-day Papua New Guinea came under Australian control following World War I, with the legally distinct Territory of New Guinea being established out of the former German colony as a League of Nations mandate. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Clint
William Alfred Clint (8 January 1906 – 21 April 1980) was an Australian priest in the Church of England in Australia (as the Anglican Church of Australia was then called). He established a number of Aboriginal co-operatives on behalf of the Australian Board of Missions, including Tranby Aboriginal College. Early life Clint was born in 1906 in Wellington, New Zealand, to John William Clint, a commercial traveller, and his wife Lilian Lancaster (née Cawdery). The family moved to Sydney when Clint was a child, and he was educated at Balmain Public School and Rozelle Junior Technical School, although he left early due to his father's unemployment. Career Clint worked for the Balmain Co-operative Society Ltd's store. Despite a Low Church upbringing, Clint was converted to the Anglo-Catholic Christian Socialism of Fr John Hope at Christ Church St Laurence. In 1927 he entered St John's College, Morpeth for training for ordination, becoming a lay reader in the Brotherhood of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
