Brian Gregory Mascord (born 30 January 1959) is an Australian bishop. He is the fifth bishop of the

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. Mascord was born in

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. He is the son of Ron Mascord and Margaret Callinan. He was educated at St Joseph's Catholic School in Charlestown and St Pius X College in Adamstown. Before entering St. Patrick's Seminary in Manly, Mascord earned a diploma of teaching at the Catholic College of Education (now part of the

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) in Castle Hill, spending six years teaching in a Catholic primary school. He was ordained on 31 October 1992 at Sacred Heart Church in

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. He then worked in a parish in pastoral care before becoming pastor of the parish of St Mary MacKillop in

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, director of the pastoral ministry in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle and a member of the diocesan committee for the liturgy. Since 2013, Mascord was also vicar general of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle. On 30 November 2017,

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appointed him Bishop of Wollongong.

Consecration

Mascord was consecrated as a bishop on 22 February 2018, at the WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong. His principal consecrator was Archbishop

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OP, Archbishop of Sydney, while the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Peter Ingham, Bishop Emeritus of Wollongong, and Bishop William Wright, Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle.Catholic Hierarchy website
Accessed 21 January 201.

References

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