Newly ordained
Bishop John Harrower ordained seven people at St David's Cathedral on Saturday 22 November, three as priest and four as deacon.
Those ordained have had a wide variety of life experience, with careers as a crime scene examiner, musician, engineer, audio-visual technician, urban planner, and natural resource manager among them.
There are men and women, aged from mid-20s to grandparents. Some will continue in the workforce, while others are in a full-time church role.
Those ordained deacon were Kate Boughton, who has just finished theological studies; Christina Campton, who is ministering at Claremont; Santaseelan Packianathan, from the Kingston Parish; and Victor Panne, who is a school chaplain in Rokeby/Clarendon Vale.
Those ordained priest were Ross Duncan, the Chaplain to Risdon Prison; Mark Holland, who is working with youth and families at Wellspring parish (formerly BayWest-Holy Trinity); and James McKee, who is ministering in North Launceston.
Bishop John said, 'I'm very pleased to see a continual steady stream of new leaders being ordained in Tasmania over recent years. We are blessed with men and women of wide experience and different gifts, younger and older, who are taking up the challenge of serving their church and local community in these new roles.
They will be a valuable part of the local leadership of the Anglican Church in Tasmania.'