Peter John Elliott
| The Most Reverend Peter Elliott | |
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| Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne | |
| Archdiocese | Melbourne |
| Orders | |
| Ordination |
19 February 1973 by Lawrence Joseph Shehan |
| Consecration |
30 April 2007 by George Pell |
| Rank | Bishop |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Peter John Elliot |
| Born |
October 3, 1943 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Styles of Peter Elliott | |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | His Lordship or My Lord Bishop |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Peter John Elliott (born 1 October 1943 in Melbourne) is an auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.[1]
He was ordained to the Priesthood by the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore, Lawrence Joseph Shehan on 19 February 1973. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him on 30 April 2007 as titular bishop of Manaccenser.[2] and auxiliary bishop in Melbourne. The Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, gave him the bishop's ordination on 15 June of that year; Co-consicrators were Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, and Ambrose Battista De Paoli, Apostolic Nuncio in Australia.
He is a convert to Catholicism, having previously been Anglican.[3]
He is of partial Sorbian descent. His maternal grandmother came from a family Lutheran Sorbs who immigrated to the Wimmera region of Victoria, from what is now the German state of Saxony in the early 19th century.[4] Their emigration from Germany was motivated by their dissent from the union of Lutheran and Calvinist churches that had recently taken place there.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/belliott.html
- ↑ La Manaccenser at www.gcatholic.org.
- ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s3592594.htm
- ↑ https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/bishop-peter-elliott-life-times-martin-luther-part-1
- ↑ https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/bishop-peter-elliott-life-times-martin-luther-part-1
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