Timothy Costelloe

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Timothy Costelloe SDB (born February 3, 1954 in East Melbourne ) is an Australian religious and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth .

Life

Timothy Costelloe first went to Melbourne's St. Peter's in East Bentleigh and the Salesian College in Chadstone . He first worked as a teacher at Christ College in Melbourne before joining the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1977 . In 1978 he graduated from Christ College. After he completed his philosophical and theological studies and the eternal in the Congregation of the Salesians of Don Bosco on September 8, 1985 profession had taken off, he was on 25 October in 1986 by Archbishop Thomas Francis Little for ordained priests .

After three more years at the Salesian College in Chadstone, he went to the Pontifical Salesian University , where he graduated in 1991 with a degree in theology. After returning to Melbourne, he lectured at the Catholic Theological College in Melbourne. From 1996 on, Costelloe worked as pastor of St. Joachim, Victoria Park , in Perth . At the same time he taught at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle . After completing his PhD from Melbourne College of Divinity , he became Rector of the Salesian Branch in Melbourne in 1999 and returned to teaching at Catholic Theological College. From 2006 he also worked as pastor of St. John the Baptist in the district of Clifton Hill , from 2007 also of St. Joseph in the district of Collingwood . During this time Costelloe also held several higher offices in the religious community.

On April 30, 2007 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Melbourne and titular bishop of Cluain Iraird . On 15 June 2007 Archbishop he donated Denis Hart , the episcopal ordination . Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Sydney , George Cardinal Pell , and the Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, Archbishop Ambrose Battista De Paoli . He focused on Catholic education in the diocese and in the Australian Bishops' Conference and taught at the Australian Catholic University . His last participation in an ad limina visit was in October 2011.

On February 20, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. to the Archbishop of Perth. The installation took place on March 21, 2012. He succeeds Archbishop Barry James Hickey . On June 15, 2012, he consecrated the former Anglican Assistant Bishop in the Archdiocese of Australia, Harry Entwistle , who had converted to the Roman Catholic Church, as a Roman Catholic priest and appointed him Ordinarius of Pope Benedict XVI. The Ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross was founded on the same day .

On June 29, 2012, he and 46 other archbishops received from Pope Benedict XVI. presented the pallium in Rome . On the occasion of this stay in Rome, on July 4, 2012, he also visited the University of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

Works

  • A Critical Evaluation of the Theology of Ordained Ministry of Pope John Paul II , Ph.D. diss., Melbourne College of Divinity, 1998

Web links

credentials

  1. 47 archbishops receive pallium from Benedict XVI. , on zenit.org ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zenit.org
  2. Visita di un illustrious ex allievo all'UPS: mons. Timothy Costelloe , on unisal.it