Alistair Macrae was born on 1957 and is an ordained Christian minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and was formerly a moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, and President of the National Assembly.
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Alistair Macrae was born in Melbourne and spent most of his childhood in Sale, Victoria, before moving to Melbourne for secondary education and then Melbourne University.
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Alistair Macrae has degrees in arts, theology and philosophy from the University of Melbourne and the Trinity College Dublin.
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Alistair Macrae was ordained in 1984 and has served in rural, regional and inner-city congregations in Victoria, at Mt Beauty, Portland and West Brunswick.
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Alistair Macrae served as Moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania and as executive director of the Uniting Church Centre for Theology and Ministry in that Synod.
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Alistair Macrae was a member of the board of Wesley Mission Melbourne and chaired its social policy committee.
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Alistair Macrae has been a Director on the Board of Uniting Vic.
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Alistair Macrae was an inaugural member of the Victorian State Government's Community Support Fund and served on the advisory committee of the Community Alcohol Action network of the Australian Drug Foundation.
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Alistair Macrae became President of the UCA in July 2009, at the 12th Assembly.
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In September 2013 Alistair Macrae commenced as Minister of Wesley Uniting Church, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
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On Sunday 12 February 2023, Alistair Macrae retired from formal ministry, in a service at Wesley.
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Alistair Macrae is married to Clare Boyd-Alistair Macrae, a writer, and they have four children, Tess, Patrick, Hamish and Fiona.
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Alistair Macrae's interests include sport of most kinds, notably Australian Rules football as well as cooking, reading, running, renovating, gardening and being with family and friends.
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Alistair Macrae was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to the Uniting Church in Australia through executive and ministerial roles at state and national levels, and to the promotion of ecumenism, interfaith dialogue and reconciliation.