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Our History
| St. Margaret's is a member of the world-wide Anglican/Episcopal Communion. | We were one of about 60 parishes in the Anglican Diocese
of Bendigo, under the leadership of Bishop David Bowden. On 1 Jan 1998 we were incorporated into the Anglican Parish of Northern Mallee and our new Rector was Archdeacon Russell Smith. For notes about the early days, see my page called Heritage, and for early photographs, go to the Mills site. |
The first Anglican Church is established |
The Chaffey Brothers gave a site next to the corner of Seventh St and Lime Ave and Messrs Dundas and Lock followed plans and specifications displayed at the offices of Clark and Sharland, Architects, Mildura. In a month the weatherboard building 20 feet by 30 feet, roofed with corrugated iron, lined with canvas and paper, and warmed by a fireplace with chimney was used - first on 14 Oct 1888 at 11am by Reb I J Sparling of Wentworth. The building housed the first State School, with a church service held once a month until Rev Sparling left Wentworth for Wittlesea on 7 Jul 1889. The Bishop of Ballarat agreed to support Mildura, and on 14 Sep 1890 Revd William Thomas Hancock arrived from Nhill and became the first Incumbant. |
| On 7th June 1896 the new Roman Catholic Church was opened. | News of Mildura's churches is hard to find in the Centenary History of the Shire of Mildura. In 1897 the first edition of 'The Mildura Methodist', a quarterly publication, appeared in June. In October the Residents of Nichols Point arranged a working bee and painted the local church, that doubled as the State School and public hall (Mildura Cultivator, Oct 30,1897) |
 | St Margaret's second building begins to grow. On 8 June, MDCCCCI (1901 to you and me), the foundation stone was laid for the permanent building by Right Reverend A V Green, Bishop of Ballarat, and the Architect was E C Sharland. He placed the church with its Entrance facing Deakin Avenue, and the long axis is parallel to Eleventh St. |
Mildura Grammar School
| Higher schooling for Mildura resident's children was expanded when the St Margaret's Grammar School was opened in the old Anglican Church in Seventh St, on the 7th of July, 1902. The Head was Miss Roser, but the affairs of the school were handled by a committee headed by the Church of England Minister, although it was made very clear that the classes were open to all. Unfortunately, the church was destroyed by fire in September and classes were held, temporarily, in another church building nearby. At the time of the disaster it had been decided to demolish the wooden part of the structure and make addititions for use of the school. In April 1903 the school moved to remodelled premises in Eleventh St, with some ceremony. |
 Original design | We become part of St Arnaud Diocese. In 1926 Ballarat Diocese divided into two, and our area was given the name Diocese of St Arnaud. Bishop Melville Charles James 1926 - 1950 was our first Bishop, followed by 21 years with Bishop Allen Winter. He retired on 31 Aug 1973 (the last day of Winter in two senses). His successor was David Hubert Warner Shand, enthroned as Bishop of St Arnaud in 2 Dec 1973, who had the task of passing our parishes to the Diocese of Bendigo. |
 Canon Horner exchanged his bicycle for this beauty, is it a baby Austin? |
Bishop James laid the foundation stone of St Margaret's parish hall on 12 January, 1930. In his review of his first ten years of the Diocese, the Bishop notes that All Saints' Billabong and St Luke's Irymple churches had been built, both as centres under the care of the Mildura clergy. After 10 clergy each staying about 3 years, we had 2 clergy who served a total of 36 years. Canon Albert George Horner served from 1926 to 1946, and was replaced by Revd James Hardingham who died on 20 Feb 1962, and is buried in the Chapel at St Margaret's, known as the Warriors' Chapel, or more formally the Chapel of St Michael and St George (hence the stained glass windows). |
 A later view of our church. | We cope with a time of great change in 1969 The Modern Liturgy was authorised by the General Synod of the Church in Australia. The 1662 service is to be replaced - after 305 years of use. Synod in 1969 also passed the motion proposed by Rev Gorrie of Red Cliffs that the Bishop give permission to specified laymen to administer the chalice at Holy Communion at the discretion of the Clerk-in-Charge. |
| Bishop Winter chose the name 'Archdeacon of the Mallee' when he restructured his Diocese. South Australia was about to form the Diocese of the Murray, and the Dioceses of St Arnaud and Riverina already had Archdeacons of the Murray. Thus our area obtained a distinctive name based on it's unique flora. In 1968 Ven John Burnett, Rector of Swan Hill and Archdeacon of the Murray, became our first Archdeacon of the Mallee.
We become part of Bendigo Diocese. |
 Pine trees cut down 14 Aug 93 |  Our Patron SaintThe beautiful carved statue to St Margaret of Scotland, was given by his family in memory of Alexander Sharp William Bissland, 1907 - 1986. It was dedicated on 29 March 1987, gift of Mrs Con Bissland, daughter of Archdeacon Hardingham.
Also in March 1987 work was commenced by Leonard's Plumbers to reroof the Church, including guttering, downpipes, new facia boards, and storm water drainage, at a cost of over $30,000. The big pine trees became affected by old age, and had to be cut down on 14 Aug 1993. |
 Revd Alan Collett | Revd A W Collett was our parish priest 1993-97. After he left St Margaret's, Mildura ceased to be a parish working alone, and became the hub of the Northern Mallee Parish and the location of the 'Parish Office'. The first leader of the new Parish of the Northern Mallee is Revd Russell Smith, Archdeacon of Mildura. |
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Our Clergy
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| Our Rector is elected Bishop. | Our shortest tenure belongs to Revd Donald Norman Shearman who served at Mildura 1962-63. After less than a year as Rector of St Margaret's and Archdeacon of Mildura, Donald Norman Shearman was elected Bishop of Rockhampton and consecrated on 24 Feb 1964. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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On 1 Jan 1998 Archdeacon Russell Howard Smith took on the task of blending five centres which had previously been parishes into the new Parish of Northern Mallee. He died on 6 May 2000, and on 12 Jan 2001 Archdeacon Colin Tett was Commissioned to continue this ministry. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Our Saint Margaret
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Margaret (born c. 1045) was the grand-daughter of Edmund Ironside, King of the English, daughter of Edward Aetheling, and sister of Edgar the Aetheling, but was probably born in exile in Hungary, and brought to England in 1057. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, she sought refuge in Scotland, where about 1070 she married the King, Malcolm III. She and her husband rebuilt the monastery of Iona and founded the Benedictine Abbey at Dunfermline. Margaret undertook to impose on the Scottish the ecclesiastical customs she had been accustomed to in England, customs that were also prevalent in France and Italy. But Margaret was not concerned only with ceremonial considerations. She encouraged the founding of schools, hospitals, and orphanages. She argued in favor of the practice of receiving the Holy Communion frequently. She was less successful in preventing feuding among Highland Clans, and Malcolm's raids into England. In 1093 he first visited William II at Gloucester, and later invaded again, reaching Alnwick where both Malcolm and his eldest son by Margaret, Edward, were killed. Margaret herself died in Edinburgh a few days later, on 16 Nov 1093 (of grief, it is said) aged about 48. She was canonised by Pope Innocent IV in 1249. |
| Margaret's Prayer Her Day is 16 November. | O God, who called your servant Margaret to an earthly throne, that she might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave her zeal for your church and love for your prople: Mercifully grant that we who commemorate her this day may be fruitful in good works, and attain to the glorious crown of your saints; though Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. |
 St Margaret is a woman in History | We do not have access to the historical lives of John, Luke and Mark, our saints for Merbein, Irymple and Red Cliffs, but we do have family history details for Margaret (c. 1045 - 1093) and her husband Malcolm (1031 - 1093). Malcolm III spent several years of his youth in exile at the court of Edward the Confessor, then gained his throne by defeating Macbeth near Lumphanan in March 1058. In 1068 he gave shelter to Edgar the Aethling and his sisters, one of whom (Margaret) became his second wife. Of their six sons, Edward was killed with his father, and three - Edgar, Alexander I and David I in turn succeded to the throne after their uncle Donaldbane (Malcolm's brother). Of their two daughters, Mathilda married Henry I of England and Mary married Eustace III, Count of Boulogne. |
St Margaret's Parish Church, in the village of Restalrig, Edinburgh, Scotland
St. Margaret's of Scotland Episcopal Church, Boiling Springs, South Carolina.
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Woodbridge, VA.
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