Corner Nepean Highway & Park Road, Cheltenham, Victoria, 3192
Vicar: Fr Gerald Loos Mobile 0409 149 486
Church Wardens: Sandra Cooper Deborah Polites Marie Murry-Arthur
St Matthew’s Parish Office
161 Park Road, Cheltenham, Victoria, 3192 Contact form
The Anglican Parish of St Matthew’s Cheltenham respectfully acknowledges the Boon Wurrung people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we gather to worship the God of peace and reconciliation.
The Boonwurrung, also spelt Bunurong or Bun wurrung, are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in the Australian state of Victoria. Their territory includes part of what is now the city and suburbs of Melbourne. They were called the Western Port or Port Philip tribe by the early settlers, and were in alliance with other tribes in the Kulin nation, having particularly strong ties to the Wurundjeri people.