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The Council of Churches could refer to any one of several collaborations of Christian denominations in Australia.

Victoria
Founded 1892

1908 Rev. S. Pearce Carey as president
 * 1918 J. E. Thomas president,

1944 W. S. Pearse pres. (for the second time)

Queensland
Founded 1896

New South Wales
1938 W. H. Jones pres;

South Australia
Founded in 1896 with James Viner Smith (died 1916) as president and Henry James Holden as Secretary. Some other appointments were: Council reorganised, details yet to find Port Pirie Council of Churches was founded 1914 In 1916 the Baptist Union withdrew from the Council of Churches council reorganised to have four members each from each of Methodist, Presbyterian. Congregation, Baptist, Churches of Christ, Salvation Army, and Society of Friends; two from each to continue in following year.
 * 1898 Rev. Robert Smith Casely was elected president and James Gray secretary.
 * 1900 Dr Jefferis was president and Charles Eaton Taplin (1857–1927) secretary. Taplin was a son of Rev. George Taplin
 * 1901 Rev. John Garrard Raws (died 1929) was elected president and Taplin returned as secretary.
 * 1903 Raws was still president
 * 1905 William Jeffries president; Taplin was still secretary
 * 1906 Rev. S. Lenton pres.
 * 1907 Rev. A. N. Marshall pres.
 * 1908 James Delehanty (died 1920) secretary
 * 1909 Rev. George Davidson (pres) replaced by E. Ashby
 * 1910 J. C. Kirby pres; James Delehanty (died 1920) secretary
 * 1911 M. L. Murphy pres.
 * 1912 J. E. Thomas president; James Delehanty secretary
 * 1913 Rev. Dr George Davidson pres.; J. Delehanty sec
 * 1914 T. B. Robson pres and Delehanty sec.
 * 1915 Rev. George Hall pres. Delehanty sec.
 * 1917 J. Ernest James president and F. W. Norwood secretary
 * 1918 Donald McNicol, pres.; Leslie W. Baker, sec.
 * 1919 J. A. Seymour pres.; J. E. Cresswell sec.
 * 1920 T. Gettes White, pres.; J. E. Cresswell sec.
 * 1921 T. Hagger president J. E. Cresswell sec.
 * 1921 F. J. Miles, pres.; H. Douglas Fearon, sec.
 * 1922 Rev. G. Rayner president, J. E. Cresswell sec.
 * 1923 J. A. Seymour, pres., left for Canada; J. E. Cresswell sec., left for New Zealand
 * 1925 E. M. Hall pres; G. Towner??
 * 1926 Professor J. R. Wilton pres; Sec. F. G. Harvey
 * 1929 A. C. Weber pres; E. J. Stacy sec.
 * 1932 W. Hawke pres;
 * 1933 S. Carroll Myers pres;
 * 1934 H. R. Taylor pres; B. E. C. Tuck sec.
 * 1936 A. C. Stevens pres;
 * 1937 Gordon Rowe pres;
 * 1938 James Anderson pres;
 * 1946 J. E. Shipway pres; sec. E. H. Woollacott
 * 1948 E. S. Kiek, pres; J. E. Shepherd sec.
 * 1949 E. H. Woollacott pres; J. E. Shepherd sec. A Bungey?
 * 1950 Brig. F. L. Inglis pres; J. E. Shepherd sec.

Western Australia
1925 George Tulloch, president; secretary, Mr. H. H. Symons

Tasmania
1928 E Unwin pres;

A national council
The Australian Council of Churches was constituted on 23 September 1941 as a federation of State councils. 1941 C. Bernard Cockett pres; joint secretaries: Rev. George A. Judkins (Melbourne), and Rev. F. H. Rayward (Sydney) 1948 S. Barton Babbage, pres; S. A. Eastman sec.

It was associated with the World Council of Churches from that body's inception in 1942.

In July 1994 it was supplanted by the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA), which included the Roman Catholic Church (which had observer status in the ACC from 1965) and some Orthodox churches, was founded to supplant the Australian Council of Churches. Bishops Bede Heather and Richard Appleby, Catholic and Anglican respectively, have been credited with its formation.

Despite non-participation by the Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian and major Pentecostal churches, the Council claimed to represent 85per cent of Australian Christians.

In 2003 the Rev. David Muir Gill, general secretary of the council, was made OAM in recognition of his work with the NCCA.