Clergy length of Appointments

Criteria

This table endevours to show length of Clergy appointments.

  1. Not all appointments commenced & concluded at the start or end of a calendar year.
  2. Some appointments have one or both dates not defined so they are not included.
  3. The one year figure includes most student appointments.
  4. There are 7410 appointments with either a start, finish or both dates lacking,   meaning they are not included. Submissions encouraged.
  5. There are 735 appointments with no start or end dates.
  6. These figures are continuosly updated.

Length of Tenure Number of Clergy Percentage
Up to 1 year 867 3.7%
Between 1 & 2 years 4119 17.5%
3 years 4008 17%
4 years 3792 16.1%
5 years 2883 12.2%
6 years 1928 8.2%
7 years 1179 5%
8 years 959 4.1%
9 years 648 2.8%
10 years 517 2.2%
11 years 460 2%
12 years 291 1.2%
13 years 262 1.1%
14 years 238 1%
15 years 150 0.6%
16 years 136 0.6%
17 years 146 0.6%
18 years 112 0.5%
19 years 90 0.4%
20 years 71 0.3%
21 years 72 0.3%
22 years 67 0.3%
23 years 48 0.2%
24 years 54 0.2%
25 years 46 0.2%
26 years 41 0.2%
27 years 35 0.1%
28 years 29 0.1%
29 years 25 0.1%
30 years 23 0.1%
31 years 40 0.2%
32 years 26 0.1%
33 years 15 0.1%
34 years 12 0.1%
35 years 14 0.1%
36 years 19 0.1%
37 years 18 0.1%
38 years 15 0.1%
39 years 10 0%
40 years 17 0.1%
41 years 12 0.1%
42 years 5 0%
43 years 5 0%
44 years 3 0%
45 years 5 0%
46 years 8 0%
47 years 6 0%
48 years 3 0%
49 years 2 0%
50 years 2 0%


 

 

A selection of some of the longest serving clergy found to date.

Father M. Nelan, 1863 - 1913, 51 years, St Mary's Catholic Colac VIC
Pastor J W. Georg, 1905 - 1956,  51 years, Trinity Lutheran Rowland Flat SA
Rev W.H. Coombs, 1846 - 1896, 51 years, St Geoge's Anglican Gawler SA
Rev George Goodman, 1854 - 1906, 52 years, Christ Church Anglican Geelong VIC
Father Martin Keohan, 1823 - 1876, 54 years, St Paul's Catholic Oatlands TAS
Rev J. Yelverton Wilson 1842 - 1896, 54 years, St Stephen's Anglican Portland VIC
Pastor L Doehler, 1915 - 1970 - 57 years, St Paul's Lutheran Haighslea QLD
Rev Patrick Hayes,  1898 - 1954 57 years, Star of the Sea Catholic Burnie TAS
Father T. J. O'Connell, 1886 - 1945 59 years, Sacred Heart Catholic Tatura VIC