Join us this Christmas at St Paul’s Cathedral

Click here to see our services over the Christmas Season
Please note there will be no Choral Evensong this Sunday, our first Service of Lessons and Carols will instead be held at 3pm. 

St Paul’s Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Primate of Australia and home church for Anglicans in Melbourne and Victoria. You are most welcome to visit and worship with us.

Cathedral Opening Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8.30am – 6pm
Saturday: 9am – 4pm
Sunday: 7:30am – 7:30pm
Public Holidays: 11am – 3pm

Regular Services at St Paul’s
Sunday: 8am, 9am, 10:30am, 6pm
Monday: 12:15pm, 5:10pm
Tuesday: 12:15pm, 5:10pm
Wednesday: 12:15pm, 5:10pm
Thursday: 12:15pm, 5:10pm
Friday: 12:15pm, 5:10pm
Saturday: 10am (Mandarin language service), 12:15pm

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Worship

Music

Music plays an integral part in the worship of St Paul’s Cathedral. Since 1888, the Cathedral’s Choir of Boys and Men has been an important part of the musical life of our city. Since 2016, a new Choir of Girls, Women and Men shares in the musical leadership of our Cathedral. Three organists contribute to our rich musical tradition. 

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Regular Services

Sundays
8am – Said Eucharist (Book of Common Prayer)
9:00am – Family-Friendly Eucharist with Kids’ Corner (A Prayer Book for Australia)
10:30am – Choral Eucharist (A Prayer Book for Australia)
6pm – Choral Evensong (Book of Common Prayer)

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Weddings

St Paul’s Cathedral is a magnificent venue for your wedding, located in the very heart of Melbourne. We are delighted that you are thinking of getting married here, and encourage you to make contact with our Cathedral staff to plan your marriage at St Paul’s.

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Baptisms

St Paul’s Cathedral regularly runs courses for older children and adult enquirers to learn more about the Christian Faith, leading to baptism (admission to the Christian Faith) and confirmation (adult confession of the Christian Faith). We also prepare individual parents and godparents of infants for the baptism of their children at St Paul’s.

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Funerals

At St Paul’s we regularly celebrate the lives of those who have died, in the hope that funerals and memorial services may help the beginning of healing the wounds of grief. We do so in the belief in God, the source and giver of life.

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Cathedral

Vision

Our Cathedral Vision

Our vision is for St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne to be a place of transformation for our City and Diocese whereall people can come to experience and know God’s love in Christ Jesus.

Our Vision flows from the Cathedral’s position at the heart of our City and Diocese: our witness as an iconic symbol of faith for the people of Melbourne, and the home church of our Diocese.

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History

St Paul’s stands at the very heart of the City of Melbourne. In style, it echoes the grand Cathedrals of Europe. Designed by distinguished English revival architect William Butterfield, the Cathedral is built in the neo-Gothic transitional style, partly Early English and partly Decorated. Many consider St Paul’s to be Butterfield’s final masterpiece.

St Paul’s Cathedral has been an integral part of Christian Melbourne since the city’s foundation: it stands on the site where the first public Christian services in Melbourne were led by Dr Alexander Thomson in 1836.

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Explore

The Cathedral is open every day to pilgrims and visitors for worship, prayer and visiting. Many people come in to explore the wealth of history in the building, or to simply experience the quiet sanctity of this sacred space.
Visitors are welcome to obtain a $5 photo permit from the Cathedral Shop and take photographs for personal use during visiting hours, but photography is not permitted during services.

Interactive tour of St. Paul’s

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Click above to take our virtual tour of the cathedral.

 

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Outreach

At St Paul’s Cathedral, we are committed to extending our ministry beyond our regular congregations and towards those who need it most.

Migrants and refugees, children and senior citizens are just some of those we seek to reach and assist through our group programs, fundraising initiatives and social activism.

News

‘Not a Creature was Stirring’: Refugee installation comes to St Paul’s for Christmas

by St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne

A Christmas tree made from the life-jackets of Syrian children is shown at St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne this festive season as a reminder of the plight of refugees the world over. Archibald-prize winning artist Ben Quilty and Mirra Whale created…

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