The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin Rite metropolitan archdiocese located in Melbourne Victoria Australia. Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne a suffragan diocese of Archdiocese of Sydney the diocese was elevated in 1874 as an archdiocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne and is responsible for the suffragan dioceses of Sale Sandhurst and Ballarat.
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