Grafton's new Bishop makes history: Sarah Macneil first Australian woman to lead a Diocese.

Australian Church history has been made with the election of the Rev Dr Sarah Macneil as the first woman to be the diocesan bishop of an Anglican Diocese.

Dr Macneil, who is from Canberra, has accepted her appointment as 11^th Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Grafton. She will be consecrated and installed early next year.

Other women have been consecrated as assistant bishops within Australian Anglican dioceses and, overseas, women have been made diocesan bishops but this is a national first for Australia. Keep reading

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