In office 1978 – 1992 Successor Roger Adrian Herft | Name Alfred Holland Role Bishop of Newcastle | |
Church Anglican Church of Australia See Anglican Diocese of Newcastle Predecessor Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill | ||
Alfred Charles Holland is a retired Anglican Bishop of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. He served from 1978 to 1992.
Holland gave evidence by video link to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse while it was sitting in Newcastle in August 2016. His evidence related to the activities of priests in his diocese during his time as Bishop of Newcastle. He claimed to not have been aware of any accusations against priests at the time, and stated that there had not been any formal framework to deal with such accusations, so any case would have been handled in an ad hoc manner. He denied any recollection of a report being made to him at the time about a priest and a lay reader in the church. A lawyer who had advised the diocese for many years told the commission that "the then Bishop Alfred Holland had a "do-nothing approach" to matters of sexual impropriety."