Anglican Church faces shortage of ministers, churches in the bush as it repays victims of child sexual abuse
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Bathurst Bishop Mark Calder is fighting for the diocese to survive financial woes.
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The largest Anglican diocese in western New South Wales is suffering from a crippling shortage of ministers as it struggles to pay back the church s victims of child sexual abuse.
Key points:
Anglican churches in regional NSW are struggling to recruit ministers to the bush and owe millions of dollars to victims of child sexual abuse
More than half of the parishes in a third of the state are without a full-time minister