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Who we are
Parish mission
We are a diverse Anglo-Catholic community, built on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people.
Our parish mission is underpinned by our parish Mission Action Plan 2021- 2023, which outlines our aspirational goals for the coming three years: what we will be, what we will focus on and how we will succeed.
Our parish mission action statement is “Worshipping Christ in the Eucharist; Serving Christ in the World”.
We are a diverse Anglo-Catholic community, built on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people.
Our parish mission is underpinned by our parish Mission Action Plan 2021- 2023, which outlines our aspirational goals for the coming three years: what we will be, what we will focus on and how we will succeed.
Our parish mission action statement is “Worshipping Christ in the Eucharist; Serving Christ in the World”.

Church Address

15 Gisborne Street
East Melbourne,
VIC
VIC 3002
Australia
Phone: 0401 826 325
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Fr Michael Bowie
Vicar
15 Gisborne Street
East Melbourne,
VIC
VIC 3002
Australia
Phone: 0432 072 213
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Fr Michael Bowie
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Fr Michael Bowie comes to St Peter’s with a passion for pastoral priestly ministry, worship and witness in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, including its commitment to social mission and justice. He loves being city centred, grounded in the daily offering of the Mass and the sacramental life. His training and experience have all been focused on excellent liturgical worship enhanced by fine music and thoughtful, accessible preaching.
He believes that the Church, like the Gospel, is personal, local and particular for the gathered community. Because of his understanding that the Word of God is a person and not a book, and his having exercised priesthood in diverse congregations, he is committed to the principle of presence, listening and engagement as being the key to growth in Christian community.
In 2022, Fr Michael celebrated his 30th year of ordained priesthood, on 27th June. He was born in Sydney and studied for a BA at Sydney University. This was followed by a DPhil inLatin Literature at Oxford University, and a degree in Theology, again at Oxford. He was ordained priest in the Diocese of Rochester in 1992 by the Bishop of Tonbridge.
Fr Michael a founding member of the Sodality of Mary, Mother of Priests, a strong network of theological and spiritual encouragement for male and female Catholic-minded clergy; Archbishop Stephen Cottrell is their patron.Since 2014,Fr Michael has been Associate Vicar of All Saints Margaret Street in London.
He believes that the Church, like the Gospel, is personal, local and particular for the gathered community. Because of his understanding that the Word of God is a person and not a book, and his having exercised priesthood in diverse congregations, he is committed to the principle of presence, listening and engagement as being the key to growth in Christian community.
In 2022, Fr Michael celebrated his 30th year of ordained priesthood, on 27th June. He was born in Sydney and studied for a BA at Sydney University. This was followed by a DPhil inLatin Literature at Oxford University, and a degree in Theology, again at Oxford. He was ordained priest in the Diocese of Rochester in 1992 by the Bishop of Tonbridge.
Fr Michael a founding member of the Sodality of Mary, Mother of Priests, a strong network of theological and spiritual encouragement for male and female Catholic-minded clergy; Archbishop Stephen Cottrell is their patron.Since 2014,Fr Michael has been Associate Vicar of All Saints Margaret Street in London.
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Daniel Mitterdorfer
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St Peter's Eastern Hill Service Times
Weekday Masses
8.00 am Mass - Monday to Friday
1:15 pm Mass - Wednesday
12noon - Mass Saturday - Cell of our Lady of Walsingham Mass & Devotions - 1st Saturday of the month
Sunday Mass
8.00am Low Mass (Traditional Language)
10.30am High Mass (with children’s ministry)
5:00 pm Evensong & Benediction [2nd & 4th Sundays] Low Mass [Other Sundays]
St Peter's Eastern Hill service times last updated on the 23rd of January, 2025
8.00 am Mass - Monday to Friday
1:15 pm Mass - Wednesday
12noon - Mass Saturday - Cell of our Lady of Walsingham Mass & Devotions - 1st Saturday of the month
Sunday Mass
8.00am Low Mass (Traditional Language)
10.30am High Mass (with children’s ministry)
5:00 pm Evensong & Benediction [2nd & 4th Sundays] Low Mass [Other Sundays]
St Peter's Eastern Hill service times last updated on the 23rd of January, 2025

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St Peter's Eastern Hill History
St Peter's is the oldest Anglican church standing on its original site in inner city Melbourne.
The foundation stone was laid by La Trobe on 18 June 1846, and the building was being used for services in 1847. During the gold rush years, four hundred baptisms and the same number of weddings took place each year, and the building was extended in 1854 to bring its seating capacity up to 1050: much of this space was in galleries that were removed in 1896. The last extensions to the building took place in 1876.
he Rev’d Henry Handfield
Under Henry Handfield, the longest-standing of the 19th century vicars (1854 to 1900), St Peter’s developed a reputation for good choral music and increasing involvement in social outreach in the inner city, especially when the Sisters of the Holy Name began their work within the parish in the 1880s.
St Peter’s profile was at this time one of a very restrained high church. Here, Dame Nellie Melba had organ lessons as a schoolgirl and Henry Handel Richardson worshipped, fictionalising this part of her life in an episode in The Getting of Wisdom.
From Hughes and Maynard to today
In 1900, Ernest Selwyn Hughes, who was vicar from 1900 to 1926, stamped the parish with an explicit Anglo-Catholic identity, introducing a High Mass as the main Sunday liturgy, along with vestments and incense.
Hughes’s mild Christian Socialism was developed even further by his successor, Farnham Edward Maynard, who was vicar from 1926 to 1964.
Maynard emphasised a sometimes radical message through publications and radio broadcasts. At his instigation, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, then a small religious community, came to work in the Fitzroy part of the parish in 1933.
Since then, the parish and has developed in different ways as a contributor to Melbourne's social conscience. The Catholic and inclusive attitude of Hughes and Maynard has continued in different ways to the present.
The foundation stone was laid by La Trobe on 18 June 1846, and the building was being used for services in 1847. During the gold rush years, four hundred baptisms and the same number of weddings took place each year, and the building was extended in 1854 to bring its seating capacity up to 1050: much of this space was in galleries that were removed in 1896. The last extensions to the building took place in 1876.
he Rev’d Henry Handfield
Under Henry Handfield, the longest-standing of the 19th century vicars (1854 to 1900), St Peter’s developed a reputation for good choral music and increasing involvement in social outreach in the inner city, especially when the Sisters of the Holy Name began their work within the parish in the 1880s.
From Hughes and Maynard to today
In 1900, Ernest Selwyn Hughes, who was vicar from 1900 to 1926, stamped the parish with an explicit Anglo-Catholic identity, introducing a High Mass as the main Sunday liturgy, along with vestments and incense.
Hughes’s mild Christian Socialism was developed even further by his successor, Farnham Edward Maynard, who was vicar from 1926 to 1964.
Maynard emphasised a sometimes radical message through publications and radio broadcasts. At his instigation, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, then a small religious community, came to work in the Fitzroy part of the parish in 1933.
Since then, the parish and has developed in different ways as a contributor to Melbourne's social conscience. The Catholic and inclusive attitude of Hughes and Maynard has continued in different ways to the present.

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