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Women Now journal - issues 2-5, 1992.
The ministry of Deaconesses - Deaconess Cecilia Robinson (Methuen & Co., 1898)
Stages of Revelation and Faith - Rev Mervyn Archdall (Thynne, 1911)
Book of devotions for use in meetings of Church of England Deaconess Work (Sydney, D.S. Ford, 1918)
The order of Deaconesses: past and present - Ethel Panton and Dorothy Batho (London: SCM Press, 1937)
The devotions of a Deaconess (privately printed, 1953)
The call and the commission : a review of the historical background of the ministry of bishops, priests and deacons in the Anglican communion - Weston, William (Dee Why, N.S.W.: William Weston, 1979)
God's Patience - Dorothy Harris (Australia: the author, 1990)
The vision unfolding: Deaconess Institution 1891-1991 (Sydney: Deaconess Institution, 1991)
Women's ministry: a centenary celebration and a vision for the future (1991)
Caught for life: a story of the Anglican Deaconess Order in Australia - Nora Tress (NSW, the author, 1993)
Going it alone: Mary Andrews missionary to China 1938-1951 (Sydney: Aquila Press, 1995)
Anglicans celebrate 150 years: The Sydney Diocese fulfilling the mission of the Church (Sydney: Diocese of Sydney, 1997)

Joint prospectus for Moore Theological College and Deaconess House, undated but issued mid-1980s.
1993 Biblical Foundations and Preparing for Pastoral Ministry course prospectuses.
Mary Andrews College prospectus brochures

Collected published resources on women's ministry, including excerpts from Southern Cross, Ecom News, Passion magazine for women, ephemera relating to women's events and conferences including Christian City Church and City Bible Forum.

Reports by Karin Sowada on a proposed centre for women's ministry; reports by Jane Tooher on the establishment of the Priscilla and Aquila Centre at Moore College; copy of Sydney Synod resolution 7/08 on the Ministry of women in the Diocese.

Copies of ordinances issued by Synod regarding Deaconesses and women deacons
Notes on women's ministry and the role of Deaconesses
Reports from General Synod on the role of Deaconesses
Correspondence between Mary Andrews and Marcus Loane on the role of Deaconesses
How could mission thinking affect the role, structure and function of women's ministry? (Narelle Jarrett, 2010)
A note on School Chaplaincy and the need for change (Narelle Jarrett, 2011)
Further notes on women's ministry (Narelle Jarrett, 2011)
Policy document: ordination in the Diocese of Sydney (2014)
The Order of Deaconesses: possible re-activation in the Sydney Diocese - position paper from Anglican Deaconess Ministries (2014)
The ministry of women in the Diocese of Sydney - Archbishop Glenn N. Davies, 2014.

Items relating to or summarizing the history of the Deaconess Institution, Deaconess House and Deaconesses in Australia.
Paper on the history of Deaconesses in Sydney - Margie Mills - undated
'The Church of England Deaconess Institution, Sydney' - historical notes, typescript, 2 leaves., undated.
Transcript of talk given by the Archbishop of Sydney Donald Robinson at Women's Ministry Thanksgiving, Darling Harbour, 1991.
History of the Deaconess Institution - Marion Gabbott - 1991
Deaconesses in the Church of England in the 19th century - B.D. (Hons) thesis, Sydney University - Margaret Rodgers - 1977
Role of Deaconess House - undated typescript
Photocopy of Southern Cross special report - 1986
Lists of Deaconess House graduates, former Deaconess House students serving as missionaries, Deaconess Institution roll of service, arrival and departure dates at Deaconess House, Deaconess Appointments as at 1975.
ADM history - key dates to 2011
Transcript of Australian Church Record article on Deaconesses - July 31, 1886.
Braeside Hospital - key dates - Daphne Bragg
'The Deaconess: fifty years of service illustrates 1891-1941'
Hope Healthcare - list of key dates to 1996.
A.D.I.S.L. History - typed historical notes, undated, dates mentioned up to 2001.
'Hospitals of Hope: celebrating a century of the Homes of Peace' book published 2007
30th anniversary of the ordination of the first women deacons in Sydney Diocese 1989-2019.
The Diaconate for Women - E. Glenys Lewis, Head Deaconess of the Diocese of Auckland.

"Form and manner of setting apart with the laying on of hands of Deaconesses" - 2 versions. "Office for the admission of a Deaconess"; "Form of ordination with lying-on of hands for Deaconesses".

Deaconess ordinations - 1952-1996
Deaconess parish institutions - 1957-1996
Deaconess lists
Documents on the history of Deaconesses
Sydney Deaconess/Diaconal Fellowship - 1957-1996
Australian Anglican Diaconal Association - 1958-1996
Australian Anglican Deaconess Conference - 1947-1985
Deaconess ordinations - other dioceses - 1962-1966
Deaconesses - Church of England - 1915-1995
South East Asia & Pacific Area Deaconesses - 1968-1977
International Deaconesses - 1972-1980
International Federation of Deaconess Associations - conference - 1975
Diakonia - 1959-1978
Diakonia News - 1967-1975
Diakonia - conferences - 1969-1987
Documents on lay ministry
Koinonia Fellowship - newsletter - 1989-1991
Order of Deaconesses in England - 1947-1975

Deaconess Diplomas:
Joyce Sylvia Polson 1954
Jean Edith Starling 1958
Judith Mary Harris 1958
Janice Margaret Hudson 1962
Mary Joyce Newman 1964
Norma Sharpe 1964
Ursula Smith 1964
Hazel Jean Edwards 1965
Esme Roberts 1973

ACT Licentiate in Theology diplomas:
Ruth Crawford 1962
Janice O’Farrell 1970

Certificate of 'setting apart' of Deaconess Edna Lyall Darby, by Archbishop H.W.K. Mowll, 6th March 1956.