Mark Benedict Coleridge DD

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 (born 25 September 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria) is the Catholic Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn, Australia. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia.

Early life

Coleridge is the third of five children of Bernard Coleridge and Marjorie Harvey (both deceased). He was educated at Saint Joseph's School, Tranmere, South Australia, Rostrevor College

Rostrevor College

Rostrevor College is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school for boys', located in Woodforde, a suburb 15 minutes from the CBD of Adelaide, South Australia....

, Adelaide, and St. Kevin's College

St. Kevin's College, Melbourne

St Kevin's College, founded 1918, is a private, all-boys primary and secondary school in the Catholic tradition. The college is located in Toorak, Victoria, Australia. It has four campuses, three of which are in the suburb of Toorak; the fourth in Richmond...

, Toorak. Coleridge entered Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College, Melbourne

Corpus Christi College is the regional seminary of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. The seminary is administered by a board of Episcopal Trustees comprising the Archbishops of Melbourne and Hobart, the Bishops of Ballarat, Sandhurst and Sale, and the Auxiliary...

, Werribee as a Melbourne Seminarian, and also studied with the seminary as it moved to Glen Waverley and Clayton.

Priesthood

On 18 May 1974 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, Mark Coleridge was ordained priest by Bishop John A. Kelly, Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne. He was sent to the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome ("The Biblicum") for the Licentiate in Sacred Scripture, which he received in 1984. Coleridge was awarded the Biblicum's doctorate for his dissertation on the Infancy Narrative in Luke's Gospel in April 1992.

Episcopate

On 3 May 2002 Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II

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 appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne

Archdiocese of Melbourne

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne, a suffragan diocese of Archdiocese of Sydney, the diocese was elevated in 1874 as an archdiocese of the...

. On 19 June 2006 he was appointed Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, the first Australian episcopal appointment of Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

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Other positions and memberships

Archbishop Coleridge is a member of the Bishops Commission for Doctrine and Morals and Chairman of the Bishops Commission for Liturgy.

Honours

Chaplain of His Holiness (Monsignor), 7 December 2001

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