AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The Anglican church has appointed its first female bishop in Australia, who will take charge of a NSW diocese at the centre of a Royal Commission into child sex abuse.
The Reverend Dr Sarah Macneil has been elected unanimously as the 11th Bishop of the Anglican diocese of Grafton.
The Sunday night announcement comes a day before the Anglican church and the Grafton diocese in particular is due to appear before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which will open in Sydney on Monday.
Dr Macneil replaces Keith Slater.
He resigned in May this year, apologising for his failings in handling complaints about sexual abuse and brutal beatings that took place at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore, which was run by the Grafton diocese of the Anglican church.
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