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When the First Fleet was sent to New South Wales in 1787, the Reverend Richard Johnson was licensed as chaplain to the Fleet and the settlement. In 1825, the Rev. Thomas Scott was appointed Archdeacon of Australia under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Calcutta. The Rev. William Grant Broughton , who suceeeded Scott in 1829, was consecrated the first (and at the only) Bishop of Australia in 1836. In 1842 the Diocese of Tasmania was created, and in 1847 the remainder of the Diocese was split into the three separate Dioceses of Adelaide, Newcastle and MelbourneAlternate meanings: Melbourne (disambiguation Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 3,366,542 (census 2001). The city's name is pronounced "MEL-buhn" ( SAMPA: ["m. Over the following eighty years, the number of dioceses increased to twenty-five.
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It consists of twenty-three dioceses, arranged into provinces (except for Tasmania), with metropolitical sees in the capital cities. The dioceses are: