page_title: Augustus Short
section_title: Funding
hierarchical_section_title: Augustus Short / Career as a bishop / Funding
caption_attribution_description: Subject: Short, Augustus
context_page_description: Augustus Short was the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia.
context_section_description: In August 1851 the withdrawal of state aid to religion compelled the Church of England in South Australia to devise a voluntary system of maintaining itself. Short, who had prepared a draft constitution for the diocese, visited England in 1853, sailing from Port Adelaide aboard the Shackamaxon with his wife and children. There he obtained counsels' opinion, which agreed that it was competent for a colonial diocese to organise itself without Imperial authority. The constitution was submitted in October 1855 to a diocesan assembly and was adopted. In 1856 the diocese of Perth, Western Australia was founded and Short was relieved of the oversight of the whole of Western Australia, a difficult task especially in view of the limited means of communication.
  The Adelaide diocese had been presented with some land in the city by W. Leigh, the income from which became very useful for general diocesan purposes, and by the liberality of William Allen the pastoral aid fund was instituted. Other funds for the endowment of the diocese and for providing retiring allowances for the clergy were also successfully initiated.
caption: 1847 portrait painting of Bishop Augustus Short.
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