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Ordination of Bishop Tim
Costelloe SDB, auxiliary of Melbourne
Titular See: Clonard (Cluain Iraird or Eraird's
Meadow, Co. Meath)
MELBOURNE: 15th June 2007 -- On Friday, June 15th, Feast of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, the Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick in Melbourne, Australia, was filled
to overflowing for the Episcopal Ordination of the Most Rev. Peter Elliott and
the Most Rev. Tim Costelloe SDB. Both new bishops will be auxiliaries in
Melbourne, numerically the largest diocese in Australia.
Prior to his ordination as a bishop, Tim Costelloe has held a number of
positions in the Australian Province, which covers a large part of the South
Pacific as well, and most recently has been Rector of the Formatioin House,
Parish Priest of two adjacent parishes, Provincial Councillor and Provincial
Delegate for Formation.
The principal consecrator at the
ordination was Archbishop Denis Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne. He was joined by
the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Ambrose De Paoli, and Cardinal George Pell,
Archbishop of Sydney. Over twenty bishops and more than two hundred priests
concelebrated the ordination Mass, while the Salesian Provincial, Fr Frank
Moloney, read Bishop COstelloe's papal letter of appointment and assisted him
throughout the ceremony.
In his homily, Archbishop Hart
spoke of the contribution which Bishop Costelloe has made to the Archdiocese as
a teacher of theology, a spiritual director for the diocesan seminarians and a
retreat preacher. He also spoke of the important role which the two bishops will
play in fostering the unity of the Church in Melbourne, and its communion with
the wider Church.
After the ordination a reception was
held in an adjacent hotel, where the two bishops were able to spend time with
their families, friends and colleagues.
Given the new
bishop Tim's long association with education and schooling, his assigned Titular
See, Cluain-Iraird (Clonard), Co. Meath, Ireland, is significant. It is famous
for the so-called 'Twelve Apostles of Erin' or the twelve Irish holy men who
represent as many as 3,000 scholars who studied at the open-air school set up on
Eraird's Meadow by St Finian in 520.
The new bishop holds a Bachelor of Theology from the Melbourne College of
Divinity, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Salesian
University (Rome), and a Doctorate of Theology from the Melbourne College of
Divinity, examining the theology of ordained ministry of John Paul II. He taught
systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) and at
Murdoch University, Western Australia before returning to Melbourne to teach at
the Catholic Theological College. His main academic interests are Mariology and
the theology of the ordained ministry.
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