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On 6 May 1845 the Diocese of Perth was erected in an area covered and administered previously by the Archdiocese of Sydney.. It lost territory repeatedly, to establish on 12 March 1867 the Benedictine Territorial Abbacy of New Norcia, on 10 May 1887 the Apostolic Vicariate of Kimberley in Western Australia and on 30 January 1898 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Geraldton.
The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in Australia.The Australian Catholic Church comprises seven archdioceses and 32 dioceses including six dioceses which cover the whole country: one each for those who belong to the Chaldean, Maronite, Melkite, Syro-Malabar and Ukrainian rites and one for those serving in the Australian Defence Forces.
Currently there are 33 Catholic dioceses in Australia, consist of 5 metropolitan archdioceses, 21 suffragan dioceses, 2 non-metropolitan archdioceses, and 5 Eastern Rite dioceses. In addition there is a military ordinariate and a personal ordinariate .
St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, officially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth and seat of its archbishop, currently Timothy Costelloe. The cathedral is at the centre of Victoria Square, on the northern end of Victoria Avenue, Perth, Western Australia.
Barry James Hickey OAM KC*HS [2] (born 16 April 1936) [1] an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the eighth Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Perth, Western Australia, serving from 1991 until his retirement in 2012.
Bishops and Archbishops of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth, Western Australia. Pages in category "Roman Catholic archbishops of Perth" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
An adjunct professor at the Australian Catholic University, he is also a member of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Commission for Catholic Education. [1] In February 2012 Pope Benedict XVI named Costelloe to succeed Barry Hickey as Archbishop of Perth. [3] [4] On 21 March 2012 he was installed as archbishop at St Mary's Cathedral ...
St Patrick's Church, York is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in York, Western Australia, within the Archdiocese of Perth.In addition to York, it administers the churches of Sacred Beart in Beverly, Our Lady of the Rosary in Brookton, and St. Ann's in Pingelly.