Michael George Hough is a retired

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bishop who served in the

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and the

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. He had previously been a Franciscan priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Hough was principal of

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from 1993 to 1996. He then served as the

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from 1996 to 1998, Bishop of Port Moresby from 1998 to 2001 and Bishop of Ballarat from 2004 to 2010. In June 2010 he announced his decision to step down later in the year.''The Courier''
/ref> He subsequently returned to parish ministry before retiring in 2019.

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