Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia located in Brisbane and covering the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

Archdiocese of Brisbane Archidioecesis Brisbanensis
Coat of Arms of the Archdiocese of Brisbane
Location
Country	Australia
Territory	South East region of Queensland, including Greater Brisbane
Ecclesiastical province	Brisbane
Coordinates	27°27′56″S 153°02′41″E / 27.46556°S 153.04472°E / -27.46556; 153.04472
Statistics
Area	65,000 km^2 (25,000 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2012) 2,849,000 663,000 (23.3%)
Parishes	103
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	12 April 1859 as the Diocese of Brisbane; 10 May 1887 as the Archdiocese of Brisbane
Cathedral	Cathedral of St Stephen
Patron saint	Saint Mary of the Cross
Secular priests	245
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop of Brisbane	Mark Coleridge
Auxiliary Bishops	Kenneth Michael Howell Tim Norton SVD ^[1]
Bishops emeritus	Brian Vincent Finnigan Joseph John Oudeman, O.F.M. Cap.
Map
Website
bne.catholic.net.au

Part of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Brisbane, the region covered was initially administered by the Archdiocese of Sydney. In 1859 the Diocese of Brisbane was erected, and elevated as an archdiocese in 1887. The archdiocese is the metropolitan of the suffragan dioceses of Cairns, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Townsville.

The Cathedral of St Stephen is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane. On 12 May 2012 Mark Coleridge was installed as the sixth Archbishop of Brisbane, the seventh Bishop of Brisbane. ^[2][3]

History

The Diocese of Brisbane was established in 1859, with responsibility for the entire state of Queensland. Prior to its establishment, Queensland was part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.^[4]

On 27 January 1877 Pope Pius IX excised the northern part of the Diocese of Brisbane from Cape Hinchinbrook and then west to the border with South Australia (now Northern Territory) to create the Vicariate Apostolic of Queensland (later the Diocese of Cairns.^[5]

On 29 December 1882, the Diocese of Rockhampton was excised from the Archdiocese of Brisbane. The new Rockhampton diocese had responsibility for northern Queensland while the Brisbane archdiocese retained responsibility for southern Queensland.^[6][7]

In 1929, the Diocese of Toowoomba was excised from the Archdiocese of Brisbane.^[4]

Bishops

Ordinaries

The following people have been appointed as Roman Catholic Archbishops of Brisbane or any of its precursor titles:^[8]

Order	Name	Title	Date enthroned	Reign ended	Term of office	Reason for term end
1	James Quinn †	Bishop of Brisbane	14 April 1859	18 August 1881	22 years, 126 days	Died in office
2	Robert Dunne †	Bishop of Brisbane	3 January 1882	10 May 1887	5 years, 127 days	Elevated as Archbishop of Brisbane
		Archbishop of Brisbane	10 May 1887	13 January 1917	29 years, 248 days	Died in office
3	James Duhig †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Brisbane	27 February 1912	13 January 1917	4 years, 321 days	Succeeded as Archbishop of Brisbane
		Archbishop of Brisbane	13 January 1917	10 April 1965	48 years, 87 days	Died in office
4	Patrick Mary O'Donnell †	Coadjutor Archbishop of Brisbane	8 November 1948	10 April 1965	16 years, 153 days	Succeeded as Archbishop of Brisbane
		Archbishop of Brisbane	10 April 1965	5 March 1973	7 years, 329 days	Retired and titled Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane
5	Francis Roberts Rush †	Archbishop of Brisbane	5 March 1973	3 December 1991	18 years, 273 days	Retired and titled Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane
6	John Bathersby †	Archbishop of Brisbane	3 December 1991	14 November 2011	19 years, 346 days	Retired and titled Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane
7	Mark Coleridge	Archbishop of Brisbane	11 May 2012	present	10 years, 268 days	n/a

Coadjutors are included in the table above.

Auxiliary bishops

Current

• Kenneth Michael Howell (2017-)^[9]
• Tim Norton SVD (2022-)^[10]

Former

• Henry Joseph Kennedy † (1967-1971), appointed [[Roman Catholic Bishop of Armidale|Bishop of Armidale^{[citation needed]}]]
• John Joseph Gerry † (1975-2003)
• Eugene James Cuskelly, M.S.C. † (1982-1996)^{[citation needed]}
• Michael Ernest Putney † (1995-2001), appointed Bishop of Townsville^{[citation needed]}
• Brian Vincent Finnigan (2002-2015)^{[citation needed]}
• Joseph John Oudeman, O.F.M. Cap. (2002-2017)^{[citation needed]}

Other priests of the diocese who became bishops

• James Byrne † , appointed Bishop of Toowoomba in 1929
• Andrew Gerard Tynan † , appointed Bishop of Rockhampton in 1946
• Edward John Doody † , appointed Bishop of Armidale in 1948^{[citation needed]}
• John Ahern Torpie † , appointed Bishop of Cairns in 1967^{[citation needed]}
• Brian Heenan, appointed Bishop of Rockhampton in 1991
• James Foley, appointed Bishop of Cairns in 1992
• William Martin Morris, appointed Bishop of Toowoomba in 1992
• Michael Fabian McCarthy, appointed Bishop of Rockhampton in 2014^{[citation needed]}
• Anthony Randazzo, appointed an Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney in 2016
• Timothy James Harris, appointed Bishop of Townsville in 2017^{[citation needed]}
• † = deceased

Cathedral

Main article: Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane

The gothic revival cathedral is located on a site bounded by Elizabeth, Charlotte and Edward Streets, in the Australian city of Brisbane. Built between 1864 and 1922, with extensions made in 1989, the cathedral was established with James Quinn as its first bishop. Quinn planned to construct a large cathedral to accommodate a growing congregation. On 26 December 1863, the Feast of St Stephen, Quinn laid the foundation stone for a grand cathedral designed by Benjamin Backhouse. Backhouse's original design was changed and downsized numerous times over the course of the cathedral's completion, mainly for economic reasons.

In 1927, there was a plan to replace St Stephen's with a new Holy Name Cathedral to be built in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. However, funding was only sufficient to build the crypt. Eventually the project was abandoned, the crypt demolished and the land sold.

Parishes

Acacia Ridge – Our Lady of Fatima Albany Creek – All Saints Alexandra Hills – St Anthony Annerley Ekibin Catholic Parish Ashgrove – St Finbarr (Jubilee Catholic Parish) Aspley – Our Lady & St Dympna Auchenflower – St Ignatius Banyo Nundah Parish Bardon – St Mary Magdalen (Jubilee Catholic Parish) Beaudesert – St Mary's Beenleigh – St Patrick Birkdale – St Mary Mackillop Boonah – All Saints Booval – Sacred Heart Bowen Hills – Our Lady of Victories Bracken Ridge – St Joseph & St Anthony Bray Park – Holy Spirit Brisbane – Cathedral of St Stephen Browns Plains – St Bernardine Bulimba – St Peter and Paul Buranda – St Luke Burleigh Heads – Infant Saviour Burpengary – St Eugene de Mazenod Caboolture – St Peter Caloundra – Our Lady of the Rosary Camp Hill – St Thomas Cannon Hill – St Oliver Plunkett Capalaba – St Lukes Carina – Our Lady of Graces Chermside West – St Gerard Majella Childers – Sacred Heart Clayfield – St Agatha Cleveland – Star of the Sea Coolangatta – St Augustine's Coomera – St Mary's Catholic Community Coorparoo – Our Lady of Mt Carmel Coorparoo – St James Parish Coorparoo Heights – Regina Caeli Corinda – Graceville Parish

Daisy Hill – St Edward the Confessor Darra Jindalee – Our Lady of the Sacred Heart / Twelve Apostles Dorrington – St Michael's Dutton Park – St Ita Enoggera – St John the Baptist Esk – St Mel Everton Park – Immaculate Conception Gatton – St Mary's Gayndah – St Joseph Geebung – St Kevin's Goodna – St Francis Xavier Gordon Park – St Carthage Greenslopes – St Maroun's Grovely – St William's Gympie – St Patrick's Hamilton – St Cecilia's Hendra – Our Lady Help of Christians Herston – St Joan of Arc (Jubilee Catholic Parish) Hervey Bay City Parish Holland Park – Mt Gravatt Inala – St Mark's Indooroopilly – Holy Family Ipswich – St Mary's Kangaroo Point – East Brisbane – St Joseph's Kedron – St Therese – The Little Flower Kenmore – Our Lady of the Rosary Kingaroy – St Mary's Kingston – Marsden – St Maximilian Kolbe Laidley – St Patrick's Leichhardt – Immaculate Heart of Mary Loganholme – St Matthew's Lutwyche Parish Manly – St John Vianney Maroochydore – Stella Maris Maryborough – St Mary's Mitchelton – Our Lady of Dolours Moorooka Salisbury Murgon – St Joseph's

Nambour – St Joseph's Nanango – Our Lady Help of Christians Nerang – St Brigid's New Farm – Holy Spirit Newmarket – St Ambrose (Jubilee Catholic Parish) Noosa District – Our Lady of Perpetual Succour North Ipswich – St Joseph Petrie – Our Lady of the Way Pine Rivers – Holy Spirit Red Hill – St Brigid (Jubilee Catholic Parish) Redcliffe – Holy Cross Rochedale – St Peter's Rosalie – Sacred Heart (Jubilee Catholic Parish) Rosewood – St Brigid's Runaway Bay – Holy Family Sandgate – Brighton Parish South Brisbane – St Mary's South Brisbane – St Clements Southport – Mary Immaculate Springfield – Our Lady of the Southern Cross St John's Wood – The Gap Parish St Lucia – St Thomas Aquinas Stafford – Our Lady Queen of Apostles Stanley River Parish Sunnybank – Our Lady of Lourdes Surfers Paradise Parish Toowong – St Ignatius Upper Mt Gravatt – Wishart Parish Victoria Point – St Rita Wavell Heights – St Paschal Wilston – St Columba Woodridge – St Paul's Woolloongabba – Protection of the Mother of God Wynnum – Guardian Angels Yeronga – St Sebastian Zillmere – St Flannan's

Economic contribution

The Archdiocese contributes around $2.5 billion to the economy through its schools and other institutions, providing employment to 22,000 people.^[11]

The Archdiocese manages 98 parishes and 144 Catholic schools. It also provides services to 12,992 aged care and disability clients, support for 8362 seniors to live at home, support to 23,000 victims of domestic violence and help for 4,000 people with mental illness.^[11]

See also

•  Catholicism portal
•  Queensland portal

• Roman Catholicism in Australia

References

1. "Fr Tim Norton named new Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane". 11 November 2021.
2. "Appointment of the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Brisbane: The Most Revd Mark Benedict Coleridge, DD" (PDF) (Press release). Catholic Church in Australia. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
3. Macdonald, Robert (3 April 2012). "Catholic Church names Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge". The Courier–Mail. Retrieved 3 April 2012.
4. "Our Story". Archdiocesan Profile. Archdiocese of Brisbane. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
5. "QUEENSLAND". Advocate. Vol. VI, no. 463. Victoria, Australia. 17 November 1877. p. 6. Retrieved 4 September 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "Diocese History". Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
7. "ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS IN QUEENSLAND". The Argus. Melbourne. 21 December 1881. p. 7. Retrieved 20 July 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
8. "Archdiocese of Brisbane". The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
9. "Bishop Ken Howell ordained an Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane Archdiocese". 14 June 2017.
10. "Fr Tim Norton named new Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane". 11 November 2021.
11. The Catholic Leader July 15, 2020

External links

• Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane
• Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Brisbane^{[permanent dead link]}