Listen to interviews with the Archbishop-designate here (ABC radio) and here (Vatican radio).
The date of the Archbishop-designate's enthronement will be announced in due course.
Thursday 18 September 2014
Deo Gratias - New Archbishop of Sydney is announced - Most Rev Anthony Fisher
It was this evening announced that His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed the Most Reverend Anthony Colin Fisher OP as the next Archbishop of Sydney. He succeeds George Cardinal Pell, now Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy of the Holy See. Click to see the official announcement from the Australian Nunciature, the Bishops' Conference statement here, new stories here, here and here, and the Archdiocesan website here and here (biography, media release from Parramatta Diocese, statement from Apostolic Administrator). Bishop Fisher has been the Bishop of Parramatta since 2010, and was auxiliary bishop of Sydney before that. Before his priestly vocation, the Archbishop-designate read law at the University of Sydney (Australia's oldest law school) and worked at one of Australia's oldest law firms, Sydney-based Clayton Utz (see also here and here) - must be a good sort!
Listen to interviews with the Archbishop-designate here (ABC radio) and here (Vatican radio).
The date of the Archbishop-designate's enthronement will be announced in due course.
Listen to interviews with the Archbishop-designate here (ABC radio) and here (Vatican radio).
The date of the Archbishop-designate's enthronement will be announced in due course.
