His Excellency, The Most Reverend Gregory Charles Bennet | |
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Bishop of Sale | |
Church | Catholic Church |
Diocese | Sale |
Appointed | 27 June 2020 |
Installed | 8 December 2020 |
Predecessor | Patrick O'Regan |
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Ordination | 22 August 1992 by Frank Little |
Consecration | 8 December 2020 by Peter Comensoli |
Personal details | |
Born | Gregory Charles Bennet 7 April 1963 |
Nationality | Australian |
Denomination | Catholicism |
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Alma mater | Braemar College |
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Reference style | His Excellency The Most Reverend |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Gregory Charles Bennet (born 7 April 1963) is an Australian bishop of the Catholic Church who has been the bishop of the Diocese of Sale since 2020. He previously served in the Archdiocese of Melbourne and became its vicar general of in 2012.
Gregory Bennet was born on 7 April 1963 in the Melbourne, [1] the second of four children of Len and Maureen Bennet. He was raised in Canterbury and Balwyn North. His family moved to Bullengarook during his teenage years, [2] He attended at St Dominic’s Primary School, East Camberwell, All Hallows Primary School Balwyn, and Marcellin College Bulleen. [3] He graduated from Braemar College in Woodend. [1] Bennet studied economics and administration and worked for the Commercial Bank of Australia. [2] Starting in 1986, he attended seminary at the Melbourne Regional Seminary anc completed his studies at the Catholic Theological College. [1] In 1992, Bennet was ordained a priest by Frank Little, Archbishop of Melbourne. [1] [4]
Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Sale on 27 June 2020. [1] His consecration and installation, first scheduled for 20 October, was postponed because of restrictions on public gatherings due to COVID-19. [5] He received his episcopal consecration on 8 December 2020 from Peter Comensoli, Archbishop of Melbourne.[ citation needed ]
Pope Francis named him a member of the Dicastery for the Clergy on 23 March 2023. [6]
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin Rite metropolitan archdiocese 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 Ecclesiastical Province of Melbourne and is the metropolitan for the suffragan dioceses of Sale, Sandhurst, Ballarat, and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ss Peter and Paul. The Archdiocese of Hobart is attached to the archdiocese for administrative purposes. St Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Melbourne, currently Peter Comensoli, who succeeded Denis Hart on 1 August 2018.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sale is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of Archdiocese of Melbourne, that covers the south east of Victoria, Australia. The diocese was established in 1887.
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