Once a First Fleet was sent to New South Wales in 1787, the Reverend Richard Johnson was licensed as chaplain to a Fleet & the payout. Within 1825, a Rpm. Thomas Scott was appointed Archdeacon of Australia under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Calcutta. A Revolutions per minute. William Grant Broughton, who succeeded Scott inside 1829, was consecrated a foremost (& at the simply) Bishop of Australia in 1836. Within 1842 a Episcopate of Tasmania was created, & inside 1847 a remainder of the Diocese was split into the ternion separate Bishopric of Adelaide, Newcastle and Melbourne. Above a as punishment lxxx years, a total of episcopate increased to twenty-xxv.

Since January 1 1962 the Australia Anglican Church has been autocephalous, headed by its own primate, currently a Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Sublime Dr Phillip Aspinall.

It consists of twenty-xxiii dioceses, arranged into provinces (except for Tasmania), with metropolitical sees in the capital cities. A episcopate come: A Province of New South Wales (Metropolitan: The Virtually all Sublime Dr Peter Jensen) Armidale (bishop: The Right Rev'd P Brain) Bathurst ( The Right Rev'd Richard Hurford) Canberra & Goulburn ( The Right Rev'd George Browning) Grafton (The Right Rev'500 Kenneth Slater) Newcastle ( The Right Rev'd Dr Brian Farran) Riverina ( bishop-elect: Fr Douglas Stephens) Sydney (archbishop & metropolitan: A Virtually all Rpm'five hundred Dr Peter Jensen) A Province of Queensland (Metropolitan: The Virtually all Sublime Dr Phillip Aspinall) Brisbane To the north Queensland A Northern Territory Rockhampton (The Right Rev'500 Godfrey Fryar) A Province of South Australia (Metropolitan-elect: The Right Reverend Jeffrey Driver) Adelaide A Murray (The Right Rev'500 Ross Davies) Willochra (The Right Rev'five hundred Garry Weatherill) A Province of Victoria (Metropolitan: The Virtually all Sublime Peter Watson) Ballarat Bendigo Gippsland Melbourne Wangaratta A Province of Western Australia (Metropolitan: The Virtually all Sublime Roger Herft) Bunbury In the north West Australia Perth (archbishop & metropolitan: A Virtually all Reverend Roger Herft) Additional Provincial Diocese Tasmania