Costelloe, who was born in Melbourne in 1954, noted that Coleridge led the conference at a difficult time for the Catholic Church in Australia.
“It was Archbishop Coleridge who guided our response beyond the Royal Commission, represented the Church in Australia at the global summit on sexual abuse, and steered the bishops through a pandemic and a host of other challenges,” he said.
“Archbishop Coleridge has been a calm and considered leader locally and in the global Church and will be a trusted adviser for me in this new role.”
Coleridge said: “It’s been a great privilege to serve the bishops’ conference as president through a turbulent time, which has made the role more intense and demanding than I expected.”
“In some ways the four years has seemed longer, and I’m not sorry to be passing the baton to someone else. Presidents come and presidents go, but the work of the conference, which is the work of the Gospel, continues.”
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