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Catholic Bishops And Archbishops Of Sydney
This is a list of the bishops and archbishops of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney since 1842. The title also is the Catholic Primate of Australia. List of bishops List of archbishops Auxiliary bishops See also *Roman Catholicism in Australia *St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney References External links * {{Roman Catholic Archbishops of Sydney Roman Catholic archbishops of Sydney, Lists of Australian people by occupation, Archbishops of Sydney Sydney-related lists, Roman Catholic archbishops Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Bishops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Sydney
The Archdiocese of Sydney () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church. Its episcopal see is Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Erected in 1842, the archdiocese is the metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitan see for the suffragan dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale, Armidale, Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Australia, Bathurst, Roman Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay, Broken Bay, Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore, Lismore, Roman Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, Maitland-Newcastle, Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta, Parramatta, Roman Catholic Diocese of Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga, Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes, Wilcannia-Forbes and Roman Catholic Diocese of Wollongong, Wollongong. The Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate of Australia, Military Ordinariate of Australia, as well as the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of St Michael, Archangel and the Maronite Diocese of St Maroun—these latter two Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Darcy Freeman
Sir James Darcy Freeman (19 November 1907 – 16 March 1991) was an Australian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Freeman was the sixth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Regina Pacis a Ostia Lido. He was ordained a priest of the Sydney archdiocese on 13 July 1930, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney on 9 December 1956 and ordained Titular Bishop of Hermopolis. In 1973, he was elevated to the cardinalate. Early life and priesthood Freeman was born on 19 November 1907 in , to Robert Freeman, a tramway driver, and his wife Margaret Smith. He was educated at the Sisters of Charity, Elizabeth Bay and St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney, where he was regarded as a good student who enjoyed literature, music and sport. He attended seminary at St Columba's Springwood and St Patrick's Seminary, Manly; and furthered his studies at the Pontifical Urban College of Propaganda Fide, Rome. He was ordained on 13 July 1930 by Archbishop Bartolomeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Rockhampton
The Diocese of Rockhampton is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Australia. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Brisbane. Erected in 1882, it covers Central Queensland. History The Diocese of Rockhampton was excised from the Archdiocese of Brisbane on 29 December 1882. Prior to this, the Brisbane archdiocese had responsibility for the entire state of Queensland, but the creation of the Rockhampton diocese split the state with responsibilities for the southern part of Queensland to remain with the Brisbane archdiocese while the northern part of Queensland became the responsibility of the new Rockhampton diocese. The Diocese of Townsville was excised from the Diocese of Rockhampton in 1930, reducing Rockampton's coverage to Central Queensland, while Townsville took responsibility for the areas further to the north. Bishops Ordinaries The following individuals have been elected as Roman Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Higgins (bishop)
Joseph Higgins (1838 – 16 September 1915) was an Irish-born Catholic bishop in Australia. He was the Bishop of Rockhampton in Queensland and the Bishop of Ballarat in Victoria. Early life Joseph Higgins was born in 1838 in County Westmeath, Ireland. He was educated at St Finian's Seminary, Navan. Religious life Higgins attended St Patrick's College, Maynooth where he was ordained in 1863. He served as President of St. Finnian's in Navan Navan ( ; , meaning "the Cave") is the county town and largest town of County Meath, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is at the confluence of the River Boyne and Leinster Blackwater, Blackwater, around 50 km northwest of Dublin. At the ... from 1867 until 1884 before becoming parish priest in Castletown. On 4 May 1899, he was appointed Bishop of Rockhampton, where he completed the cathedral, built 19 churches and established 10 schools, 8 institutions for lay women, and 2 communities of nuns. In May 1904, he suffered a " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Parramatta
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1986. The diocese has responsibility for the western suburbs of Sydney and the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales. St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Parramatta. On 5 May 2016, Pope Francis appointed Vincent Long Van Nguyen, OFM Conv to be its fourth bishop. His installation took place on 16 June 2016. History The diocese is located in one of the fastest-growing areas of New South Wales. The diocese is west of Sydney and reaches from , west to , south to and north to . The diocese was established 8 April 1986 from the western part of the Archdiocese of Sydney. and by 2004 served 307,392 parishioners out of a total population of 924,621. Bishops Bishops of Parramatta The following prelates have served as Bishop of Parramatta: : Other priest of this diocese who became bishop * Robert Michael McGuckin, appointed Bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Preachers
The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters ''OP'' after their names, standing for , meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries). More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it at the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The order is famed for its intellectual tradition and for having produced many leading theologia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Fisher
Anthony Colin Fisher (born 10 March 1960) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church and a friar of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). Since 12 November 2014, he has been the ninth Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. He served as the third Bishop of Parramatta from 4 March 2010 to 12 November 2014, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney. Early life and education Fisher was born the eldest of five children in Crows Nest, Sydney, to Gloria Maguregui, whose father was of Spanish Basque origin and whose mother was half Italian and half Romanian – she migrated with her family to Australia from Asia in the 1950s – and Colin Fisher, a pharmacist from Ashfield with Anglo-Irish roots. He was baptised at St Therese's Church in Lakemba and attended the parish school in 1965 and 1966. The Fisher family lived in Belmore, Canterbury and Wiley Park before moving to Longueville and Manly. Fisher attended St Michael's Primary School in Lane Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello Titular Church
Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello is a parish church of the Diocese of Rome as well as a titular church to which a cardinal priest is sometimes assigned. Church The Chiesa di Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello is dedicated to Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello (1837–1881), Italian founder of the Salesian Sisters. It was built in 1997 as a parish church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rome and seats 300. Its address is Piazza Salvatore Galgano 100, Roma, Lazio 00173, at the Viale Bruno Pelizze, in East Rome's XXth prefecture. Pope John Paul II visited the church on 14 December 1997. The church was established as a titular church on 21 February 2001. Cardinal-protectors * Venezuelan Cardinal Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, S.D.B. (February 21, 2001 – July 6, 2003) * Australian Cardinal George Pell (October 21, 2003 – January 10, 2023) had been the Cardinal-Priest since 2004 * South African Cardinal Stephen Brislin (September 30, 2023 - Present) having been the Cardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretariat For The Economy (Holy See)
The Secretariat for the Economy () is a dicastery of the Roman Curia with authority over all economic activities of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. Description Pope Francis established the secretariat in a ''motu proprio'', ''Fidelis dispensator et prudens'', published on 24 February 2014. It is headed by a prefect–originally a cardinal–who reports directly to the Pope. It is, after the Secretariat of State, the second dicastery named a ''secretariat'', an indication of its importance relative to other parts of the Curia. The seat of the secretariat is in Saint John's Tower in the Vatican Gardens. Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, was named the secretariat's first Prefect and "asked to start work as soon as possible". Pell said he would begin work at the Vatican "by the end of March." The Pope also announced the formation of a ''Council for the Economy'' to set policy guidelines for the secretariat and analyze its work. The council comprises eight car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pell
George Pell (8 June 1941 – 10 January 2023) was an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church. From 2002, he faced recurring accusations of sexual abuse, although his subsequent sexual abuse conviction was quashed on appeal to the High Court of Australia. Pell served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy at the Vatican from 2014 to 2019 and a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers from 2013 to 2018. Ordained a priest in 1966 and bishop in 1987, he was made a cardinal in 2003. Pell served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014), the seventh Archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne (1987–1996). He was also an author and columnist. A conservative, Pell maintained a high public profile on a wide range of issues, while retaining an adherence to Catholic orthodoxy. Pell worked as a priest in rural Victoria and in Melbourne and also chaired the aid organisation Caritas Australia (part of Caritas Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria In Vallicella
Santa Maria in Vallicella, also called Chiesa Nuova, is a church in Rome, Italy, which today faces onto the main thoroughfare of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele and the corner of Via della Chiesa Nuova. It is the principal church of the Oratorians, a religious congregation of secular priests, founded by St Philip Neri in 1561 at a time in the 16th century when the Counter Reformation saw the emergence of a number of new religious institutes such as the Jesuits, the Theatines, and the Barnabites. These new congregations were responsible for several great preaching churches built in the Centro Storico, the others being Sant'Andrea della Valle (Theatines), San Carlo ai Catinari (Barnabites), and The Gesù and Sant'Ignazio (Jesuits). History By tradition, St. Gregory the Great built the first church on the site. By the 12th century, it was dedicated to ''Santa Maria in Vallicella'' ("Our Lady in the Little Valley"). In 1575, Pope Gregory XIII recognised Neri's group as a religiou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
