Joseph Angelo Grech

Joseph Angelo Grech (born December 10, 1948 in Ħal Balzan , Malta , † December 27, 2010 in Melbourne , Australia ) was Bishop of Sandhurst .

Life

Joseph Angelo Grech studied theology and philosophy at the Diocesan Seminary in Balzan in Malta and at Corpus Christi College Glen Waverley and Clayton. He was ordained a priest on November 30, 1974 by the auxiliary bishop in Malta , Joseph Mercieca . He has served in pastoral care in Melbourne, Northcote, Altona North, Maidstone and Moonee Ponds and parish priest in Brunswick East. After studying for a doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he became chaplain of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. He was spiritual at the Corpus Christi College of the diocese .

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Belesasa and auxiliary bishop in Melbourne on November 27, 1998 . The Archbishop of Melbourne George Pell gave him on 10 February 1999 in Patrick's Cathedral the episcopal ordination ; Co-consecrators were Thomas Francis Little , Senior Archbishop of Melbourne, and Joseph Peter O'Connell , Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne.

He was named Bishop of Sandhurst on March 8, 2001, and ordained in office on April 27, 2001 at Sacred Heart Cathedral . He was also responsible for youth and young adults and for migrants and refugees in the Australian Bishops' Conference.

Web links

• Entry on Joseph Angelo Grech on catholic-hierarchy.org
• 'A holy and gentle pastor' - Bishop Joseph Angelo Grech, 1948-2010 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Death of Bishop Joe Grech. (No longer available online.) Catholic Diocese of Wallongong, archived from the original on December 31, 2010 ; accessed on December 28, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Noel Desmond Daly	Bishop of Sandhurst 2001-2010	Leslie Tomlinson