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The Sharwood Lecture
The Sharwood lecture series is named in honour of Dr Robin Sharwood, the fourth Warden of Trinity College, who died in 2015 at the age of 83. In his will, Dr Sharwood bequeathed a share of his estate to Trinity College to establish and finance 'The Sharwood Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Law'.
The Sharwood Lecture is now held every alternate year.
In addition to that lecture, the Sharwood Bequest supports an academic unit offered by the University of Divinity through the Trinity College Theological School entitled Anglican Church Law and Governance. This unit can be taken for credit or audited as a single unit intensive. For further details on this unit, click here.
The Sharwood Bequest also offers, in the three episcopates of the Diocese of Melbourne, a short course for parish clergy and laypeople entitled Good Governance and Management in Your Parish, as well as a two day intensive course entitled 'Governance Briefing for Appointees to Boards and Councils in the Diocese of Melbourne'.
Barry Marshall Lecture
The memory of Barry Russell Marshall, a former College Chaplain and lecturer in the Theological School, is commemorated by an annual memorial Eucharist and a Lecture.
Hughes-Cheong Lecture
The Hughes-Cheong Lectures are a series of biennial addresses hosted by Trinity College, and funded by a generous endowment in honour of two remarkable former priests of St Peter’s Eastern Hill – Fr Ernest Selwyn Hughes, and Fr James Cheong. Ordained in 1887, Fr Ernest served as curate at St. Mark’s in Fitzroy and then at St. Peter’s in the London docklands. On his return to Melbourne in 1894, he was appointed assistant priest at St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, becoming its vicar in 1900 – an appointment he would retain until his retirement in 1926. Fr James – like Fr Ernest, an alumnus of Trinity College, Melbourne – was ordained deacon in England, after studying at Cuddesdon College, before being priested in Melbourne in 1906. From then until his death in 1941, he served as assistant priest at St Peter’s Eastern Hill.
Since 2020, Trinity College has administered the Hughes-Cheong Trust, and has been privileged to host several world-class scholars as the Hughes-Cheong Lecturers, including: in 2014, Professor Miroslav Volf, and in 2022 Professor Willie James Jennings (both of Yale Divinity School).