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Second woman bishop appointed
April 25, 2008
NEW BISHOP: Canon Barbara Darling will become Australia's next Anglican bishop next month PHOTO: Anglican Media , Melbourne
April 25, 2008
NEW BISHOP: Canon Barbara Darling will become Australia's next Anglican bishop next month PHOTO: Anglican Media , Melbourne
Melbourne parish priest, Canon Barbara Darling, will be Australia's second Anglican bishop.
The appointment of the current vicar of St James', Dandenong to be an assistant bishop was announced today by Melbourne's Archbishop Philip Freier.
Canon Darling said today she was "delighted, particularly for all women - both clergy and laity."
"We have been waiting many years for this opportunity, and now, at long last, the day has arrived," she said.
"I felt called by God to some form of Christian ministry from an early age, and gradually I felt called to ordination, first as a deacon and then as a priest. I am now surprised and somewhat humbled, yet excited, about responding to the call to be a bishop."
Canon Darling, 60, was among the first women in Australia to be ordained priest in 1992 in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.
Her consecration as a bishop will happen May 31, a week after Archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy becomes as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Perth.
Melbourne' Diocese's executive body, Archbishop in Council, backed the appointed at its meeting last night.
Archbishop Freier said Canon Darling is a woman of "deep faith, as well as outstanding pastoral, teaching and organisational ability".
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