Province of Queensland


The Province of Queensland is an ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Church of Australia, the area of which covers that of the Northern Territory and the state of Queensland. The province consists of four dioceses: Brisbane, North Queensland, The Northern Territory and Rockhampton.
On its creation of the Province of Queensland in 1905, the Diocese of Brisbane became the permanent metropolitan see, and its bishop the metropolitan archbishop. The current metropolitan of the province is Phillip Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane.
Prior to Papua New Guinea's independence in 1975 the province also included the diocese of New Guinea.