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Congregational Union Of Australia
The Congregational Union of Australia was a Congregational church, Congregational Christian denomination, denomination in Australia that stemmed from the Congregational church, Congregational Church in England as settlers migrated from there to Australia. Congregational Churches existed in all states and territories of Australia at some time. The oldest Congregational Church was founded in Hobart in 1830 by Frederick Miller (minister), Frederick Miller. History One of the earliest and most influential Congregational ministers in early times was Thomas Stow, Thomas Q. Stow, who built the first church in South Australia. Some of the first Congregational Churches established in each Australian state included the Pitt Street Uniting Church, Pitt St church in Sydney, Stow Memorial Church (now Pilgrim Uniting Church, Pilgrim Uniting) in Adelaide, Collins Street (now St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne, St Michael's) church in Melbourne, Trinity Church, Perth, Trinity (now Trinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brougham Place Uniting Church
Brougham Place Uniting Church is a Uniting Church in Australia, Uniting Church (building), church located at Brougham Place, North Adelaide, Brougham Place, North Adelaide, South Australia. History Edmund Wright (architect), Edmund Wright won an architectural competition for the design of the church in 1859, then Brougham Place Congregational Church. The foundation stone was laid on 15 May 1860. A tower was added in 1871 and a lecture hall in 1878, designed by architect Thomas Frost. The pipe organ was built in 1881 at which time it was "the largest two manual organ in the colony", and restored in 1914. James Jefferis was the first pastor, serving from its inception on 20 October 1859, when services were held in the Temperance halls, temperance hall in Tynte Street, North Adelaide, to 1877, then from 1895 to 1901, when he retired. It looks over Brougham Gardens in the Adelaide Parklands. References Bibliography * External links Official Site Uniting churches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitt Street Uniting Church
The Pitt Street Uniting Church is a heritage-listed Uniting church building located at 264 Pitt Street in the Sydney central business district, Australia. Founded in 1833, the congregation was the original church of Congregationalism in New South Wales. The church building was designed by John Bibb and built from 1841 to 1846. It is also known as Pitt Street Congregational Church. The property is owned by The Uniting Church in Australia and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History The life of the congregation began when a church was founded on a nearby site in 1833. The foundation stone for the current building was laid in 1842 and took 4 years to complete. In 1846, the congregation moved to the new building, which was expanded in size and design in 1867."Pitt Street Uniting C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Ecumenism
Ecumenism ( ; alternatively spelled oecumenism)also called interdenominationalism, or ecumenicalismis the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity. The adjective ''ecumenical'' is thus applied to any non-denominational or inter-denominational initiative which encourages greater cooperation and union among Christian denominations and Church (congregation), churches. Ecumenical dialogue is a central feature of contemporary ecumenism. The fact that all Christians belonging to mainstream Christian denominations profess faith in Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, believe that the Bible is inspired by God, and receive baptism according to the Trinitarian formula is seen as being a basis for ecumenism and its goal of Christian unity. Ecumenists cite as the biblical grounds of striving for church unity, in which Jesus prays "That they all may be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presbyterian Church Of Australia
The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA), founded in 1901, is the largest Presbyterian and Reformed denomination in Australia. The PCA is the largest conservative, evangelical and complementarian Christian denomination in Australia. The Presbyterian Church of Australia is Reformed in theology and has a Presbyterian polity. History Beginnings John Hunter the captain of HMS ''Sirius'' in the First Fleet was a former Church of Scotland minister. Later Presbyterian Christianity came to Australia with the arrival of members from a number of Presbyterian denominations in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century. The Presbyterian missionaries played an important role to spread the faith in Australia. Since then Presbyterianism grew to the fourth largest Christian faith in the country. The Presbyterian Church of Australia was formed when Presbyterian churches from various Australian states federated in 1901. The churches that formed the Presbyterian Church of Australia were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Methodist Church Of Australasia
The Methodist Church of Australasia was a Methodist denomination based in Australia. It existed from 1902 to 1977, when the Uniting Church in Australia was formed. It did missionary work in Australia through two organisations: the Methodist Overseas Mission (founded 1916), which focused mainly on Aboriginal Australians, and the Methodist Inland Mission (founded 1926), which served settler communities in remote parts of Australia. History On 1 January 1902, ten years after the publication of ''Methodist Union in Canada'' by W. F. James, five Methodist denominations in Australia – the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists, the Bible Christian Church, the United Methodist Free Churches, United Methodist Free and the Methodist New Connexion Churches came together to found a new church. Its organisational structure mainly followed the Wesleyan Methodist Church. This Methodist Church of Australasia established a General Conferen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Kiek
Winifred Kiek (; 27 July 1884 – 23 May 1975) was the first woman to be ordained in the Christian Ministry in Australia. She was ordained on 13 June 1927 in South Australia to the Congregational Union of Australia (now part of the Uniting Church in Australia). Personal life Winifred was born in Manchester, England to John Robert Jackson, a tea salesman, and his wife Margaret, née Harker, who were Quakers Winifred was educated at Urmston Higher Grade School, and at 16 she won a scholarship to Manchester Pupil Teacher Training Centre. In 1904 she entered the Victoria University of Manchester (B.A., 1907) where she won the university prize in logic; she became a schoolteacher. She married Edward Sidney Kiek, a Congregational church minister, on 28 August 1911 at the Chorlton Road Congregational Church, Manchester; they had three children. After World War One, they migrated to Adelaide, South Australia where Edward Kiek became head of Parkin Congregational Theological College (l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AustLII
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is an institution operated jointly by the Faculties of Law of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Its public policy purpose is to improve access to justice through access to legal information. Inception and aims AustLII was established in 1995. Founded as a joint program of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales law schools, its initial funding was provided by the Australian Research Council. Its public policy purpose is to improve access to justice through access to legal information. Content AustLII content is publicly available legal information. Its primary source information includes legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals. It also hosts secondary legal materials, including law reform and royal commission reports, as well as legal journals. The AustLII databases include the complete text of all of the decisions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of New South Wales
The Parliament of New South Wales, formally the Legislature of New South Wales, (definition of "The Legislature") is the bicameral legislative body of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). It consists of the Monarch, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (lower house) and the New South Wales Legislative Council (upper house). Each house is directly elected by the people of New South Wales at elections held approximately every four years. The legislative authority of the parliament derives from section 5 of the '' Constitution Act 1902'' (NSW). The power to make laws that apply to New South Wales is shared with the Federal (or Commonwealth) Parliament. The houses of the New South Wales Parliament follow the Westminster parliamentary traditions, green and red chamber colours and protocols for the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council, respectively. The houses of the legislature are located in Parliament House on Macquarie Street in Sydney. History The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Memorial Church, Canberra
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Trinity Church, Perth
Trinity Church is a Uniting church located at 72 St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. Commenced in 1893, the former Congregational church is one of the oldest church buildings in the City of Perth, and one of the few remaining 19th-century colonial buildings in the city. History The Trinity Church congregation was established by Henry Trigg, a practising Congregationalist, who arrived in the Swan River Colony in 1829. Trigg initially attended the first Anglican Church, where he was a choirmaster. He later joined the Wesleyans, but from 1843 he held prayer meetings in the Congregational tradition in his own home. First church building In 1845 a number of the Congregationalists met to discuss the building of a chapel, and a £3 subscription was agreed upon. Following this a site in William Street was obtained and on 6 September 1846 the first Congregational Chapel was opened. Within twelve months the building was enlarged to seat nearly 200 people. In the follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Michael's Uniting Church, Melbourne
St Michael's Uniting Church is an Australian church located on Collins Street in central Melbourne, Victoria. Originally the Collins Street Independent Church, a Congregational Union of Australia church, St Michael's is now a congregation of the Uniting Church in Australia. The church became known as a centre of liberal theology and political radicalism under its long-serving minister Francis Macnab from 1971 to 2016. In 2020, the church appointed the Reverend Margaret Mayman as its minister. History The first church on the site was built in 1839–41, one of the first churches in the Port Phillip District (now the state of Victoria). Following the appointment of the Rev. A. M. Henderson, that structure was demolished in 1863 to make way for the present building, completed in 1866. It was designed by architect Joseph Reed, who had also designed the Melbourne Town Hall, and later the Royal Exhibition Building. It is classified by the National Trust of Australia and listed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrim Uniting Church
Pilgrim Uniting Church is a Uniting church located on Flinders Street, Adelaide in South Australia. Social justice, as articulated by the Uniting Church in Australia in the inaugural Statement to the Nation (1977), and the Statement to the Nation (1988) for Australia's Bicentennial celebrations, is at the basis of the church's work. Pilgrim offers music programs to the public, and has the largest organ in Adelaide. History Pirie Street Wesleyan Church The congregation was originally at the Gawler Place Wesleyan Chapel. The first minister at the Pirie Street site was Daniel Draper. The first service was held on 19 October 1852. William Bowen Chinner was organist and choirmaster at Pirie Street from 1869 to around 1899. His nephew Norman Chinner filled the same positions from 1939. Stow Memorial Church The first Congregational chapel in South Australia was a temporary structure on North Terrace. George Strickland Kingston was the architect for a building in Freeman Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
