History
The Revd Robert Knopwood, a member of the original settlement in 1803, was responsible for the initial establishment of Anglicanism in the colony. Also important for the development of Anglicanism in the colony was the arrival of the Bible Society in 1819. Although most of the mainline denominations were well represented in Tasmania, Anglicanism was well established by the 1830s.
Church control of the educational system was a contested issue of the 1840s, with a division between Evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics. On 21 August 1842, Tasmania became the first independent Anglican diocese in Australia by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Queen Victoria and the Reverend Francis Russell Nixon was appointed first Bishop of Tasmania. Bishop Nixon in 1858, initiated the creation of a synodical structure, combining clergy and laity governance of the diocese, mirroring similar measures in the dioceses of Adelaide and Melbourne.
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