Diocese Of North West Australia
The Anglican Diocese of North West Australia is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia. The diocese covering 2 million km² of Western Australia north of Perth is geographically the largest Anglican diocese in Australia and the largest land based diocese in the world. The population of the area of about 150,000 people.
The diocese has 18 parishes and three Mission to Seafarers’ ministries and the cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Geraldton.
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