In 2019, the diocese voted in favour of a motion authorizing a blessing rite for same-sex unions.

[1] In November 2020, the Appellate Tribunal, the church's highest court, ruled that a diocese may authorize blessing rites for same-sex unions, allowing the Wangaratta motion to go into effect.

The land on which the church is built was donated to the parish by William Henry Clark, a pioneer of Wangaratta.

The building was faced in locally quarried granite to a design by the English architect Walter Butler.

[5] The current organ was built in 1902 by Henry Willis & Sons and is the fourth instrument to be housed in the cathedral.