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 7187 appointments with either a start, finish or both dates lacking,   meaning they are not included. Submissions encouraged.
  5. There are 718 appointments with no start or end dates.
  6. These figures are continuosly updated.

Length of Tenure Number of Clergy Percentage
Up to 1 year 783 3.4%
Between 1 & 2 years 4002 17.6%
3 years 3895 17.1%
4 years 3697 16.2%
5 years 2790 12.2%
6 years 1860 8.2%
7 years 1155 5.1%
8 years 929 4.1%
9 years 631 2.8%
10 years 503 2.2%
11 years 444 1.9%
12 years 280 1.2%
13 years 247 1.1%
14 years 234 1%
15 years 146 0.6%
16 years 127 0.6%
17 years 142 0.6%
18 years 107 0.5%
19 years 87 0.4%
20 years 68 0.3%
21 years 68 0.3%
22 years 66 0.3%
23 years 44 0.2%
24 years 51 0.2%
25 years 42 0.2%
26 years 40 0.2%
27 years 35 0.2%
28 years 29 0.1%
29 years 24 0.1%
30 years 22 0.1%
31 years 37 0.2%
32 years 25 0.1%
33 years 14 0.1%
34 years 12 0.1%
35 years 13 0.1%
36 years 19 0.1%
37 years 18 0.1%
38 years 15 0.1%
39 years 9 0%
40 years 17 0.1%
41 years 11 0%
42 years 4 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