Ministry Staff
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Kanishka Raffel
ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY
Kanishka was born in London to Sri Lankan parents and was raised as a Buddhist. While studying law at Sydney University a friend gave him a copy of The Gospel according to John and he subsequently became a Christian. Prior to becoming Archbishop in 2021, Kanishka was the Dean of St Andrew’s Cathedral from 2016, and prior to that, served as Rector of St Matthew’s in Perth. He is married to Cailey and they have two daughters.
Kanishka loves curry, cricket and having gelato at the beach with his family but knows no pleasure so great as sharing the news about Jesus with people who have no idea who Jesus is or how much he loves them.
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Sandy Grant
DEAN
Sandy is husband to Karyn (a teacher of music and SRE), father of three adult daughters, walker of Maisy the Groodle, member of the Standing Committee and Social Issues Committee, runner and reader (theology, biography, crime fiction). He has spoken often on domestic violence policy and for gambling reform. His only other job prior to training for ministry, was in a bottle shop!
Sandy Grant previously served 17 years at the regional Cathedral of St Michael’s in Wollongong. Prior to that he served at semi-rural Kurrajong and multi-cultural St John’s Park. He’s grateful for Sunday School teachers and youth leaders, who taught him the gospel and what it meant to follow Jesus many years ago.
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Christopher Allan
SUB-DEAN
Before attending Moore Theological College, he worked in project management for Lend Lease and John Holland. He is married and is father to three children.
Christopher has been at the Cathedral since 2008, was made a Canon of St Andrew's Cathedral by Archbishop Jensen in 2010 and was appointed Acting Dean/Sub-Dean of the Cathedral in 2013.
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Serena Cheung
ASSISTANT MINISTER
(Chinese Ministry 中文事工传道)By God’s grace, Serena is serving people from the Chinese origin at the Cathedral. She is passionate about discipling & training others for cross-cultural ministry. Prior to this, she was a student minister at the Healing Service for around three years.
Serena & her husband, Colin, both love coffee & chatting with people.
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Ross Cobb
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Ross Cobb has been the Music Director and Cathedral Organist at St Andrew's since 2005. He is responsible for the huge range of music across our Cathedral- Choirs, Orchestra, Cathedral Brass and our contemporary bands; overseeing the development of traditional and modern music at all gatherings. He is passionate about the role of music in reaching all with the good news of Jesus. Ross is married to Georgie and they have three young sons.
Administrative Staff
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Lisa Wilmshurst
CATHEDRAL ADMINISTRATOR
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OFFICE MANAGER
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Richard Sercombe
CARETAKER
Canons of the Cathedral
HONORARY CANONS
(YEAR OF INVESTITURE)
Canon Neville James Keen (1976)
Canon John Michael Harden Thew (2002)
Canon David Kenneth Short (2010)
Canon Peter Noel Rodgers (2012)
Canon John Graham Mason (2015)
Canon Daniel Lawrence Willis (2018)
Canon Simon Lorimer Manchester (2019)
Canon John Andrew Lovell (2020)
Canon Timothy Paul Swan (2020)
Canon Craig Walter Roberts (2020)
Canon Willis Hedley Salier (2022)
Canon Peter Richard Sholl (2023)
CANONS - CATHEDRAL CHAPTER
The Reverend Canon Phillip James Colgan
The Reverend Canon Mark Donald Thompson
The Venerable Kara Louise Hartley
The Right Reverend Michael Rennie Stead
The Most Reverend Kanishka Raffel
The Reverend Canon Simon Robert Flinders
CANON – SUB DEAN
The Reverend Canon Christopher Anthony Allan (2022) (previously an honorary canon, from 2010)
LAY CANONS - CATHEDRAL CHAPTER
Mr John Pascoe
Mrs Catherine Crouch
Mr Graeme Watson
Mr Boyo Ockinga
Mrs Kathryn Cook
Mr Steve Billington
Mr Don Parker