St Mark's National Theological Centre

The Centre delivers courses in higher education and vocational education and training (VET). Its courses in the higher education sector are offered through its partnership with Charles Sturt University's School of Theology.[1] St Mark's is in Canberra, adjacent to Lake Burley Griffin in the Parliament House precinct. Charles Sturt University's School of Theology also has auxiliary campus sites in Adelaide, Brisbane and North Parramatta.[2][3]

The Canberra campus is home to St Mark's National Memorial Library which was established in 1957 by Bishop Ernest Burgmann and is now estimated at 100,000 items.[4]

The adjacent Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture is affiliated to the United Theological College and St Mark's. The ACCC itself is located on the site of the intended national Anglican church, at one stage proposed to be a cathedral, and dedicated as St Mark's in 1927.[5] The long and complicated history of the national church site led, eventually, to the establishment of St Mark's Library.[6]

Ernest Burgmann, Bishop of Goulburn from 1934 then the renamed Canberra & Goulburn (1950-1960), established St Mark's Library in 1957. In 1967 this was expanded to become St Mark's Institute of Theology.[7] Burgmann himself was the first warden of the Library (1957-1960).[8] The first warden of the new Institute was John Nurser (1968-1974), an Englishman who had previously been Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and would go on to be the head of Lincoln Theological College.[9] The Institute later became the Canberra College of Ministry,[10] and then St Mark's National Theological Centre.

• Jeffrey Driver, later bishop of Adelaide, was Director.
• Bruce Wilson, 1984-89. Subsequently Bishop of Bathurst.
• Stephen Pickard, 1998-2006. Subsequently an assistant bishop in Adelaide, and then Canberra & Goulburn.
• Tom Frame, 2006-14. Formerly bishop to the Australian Defence Forces.
• Andrew Cameron, since 2014.