Sydney
27 July 2003
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Centre of it all ...
Two new bishops for Sydney
New bishops at cutting edge of Church
From
sailor to bishop
Neocatechumenate priest for Redfern
Pokie tax threatens club aid to Church
Honours to chapel couple
Origin star, author, surf champ lend hand to Youth
Off Streets
Four-day visit to Slovakia
Sydney group breaks Holy Land ‘drought’
Pope gives $10m aid
Unusable gifts cost Vinnies $½m a year
Specs to aid St Lucy’s
Finnish choir at St Francis
Editorial: Themes of ministry
Letters: Richness of our faith
Conversation: Jim Grainger, director of Centacare
Broken Bay - ‘Following Christ’s ideals’ of caring
Three years on, Gershom pulls out all the stops ...
Father of four ‘honoured’ by L’Arche appointment
Checking to see if Mr Right’s in site
Mary MacKillop focus of digital learning aid
Franciscan’s journey in a new era of pilgrimage
World Youth Day on web
Blessing at the centre of it all
New bishops at cutting edge of Church
Sydney’s new auxiliary bishops are energetic and are involved in the cutting edge of the Church in the modern world; in bioethics, vocations and the new ecclesial movements.
Bishop-elect Julian Porteous (pictured left) has been rector of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, at Homebush, since 2002.
He has also assisted in the formation of young people for consecrated life in the Disciples of Jesus and Emmanuel communities.
Bishop-elect Porteous was born in Sydney in 1949, the eldest of five children. He was baptised in Rose Bay parish.
He completed his primary education in Melbourne, Singapore and Parramatta, and secondary schooling with the De La Salle Brothers at Oakhill College, Castle Hill.
He studied for the priesthood at St Columba’s Seminary, Springwood, and St Patrick’s College, Manly.
He was ordained a priest in 1974.
In 1996 he was appointed administrator of the Annandale parish and in 1999 parish priest at Dulwich Hill.
At 43, Bishop-elect Anthony Fisher (pictured right), a Dominican friar and former lawyer, will be Australia’s youngest bishop.
He is the foundation director and a professor of bioethics and moral theology at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, and the author of many books and articles on bioethics and morality.
He has been an adviser to the Australian and British bishops’ conferences and is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
He was born in 1960. The eldest of five children, he was baptised at St Therese Church, Lakemba, where he attended the parish school.
He later attended St Michael’s Primary School, Lane Cove; Holy Cross College, Ryde, and St Ignatius’ College, Riverview.
He received an honours degree in history and a law degree at the University of Sydney before practising law with Clayton Utz in Sydney.
In 1985 he entered the Dominican order. He was ordained in Sydney in September 1991.