Archbishop of the capital city

The Holy Father has accepted the retirement of Archbishop Francis P. Carroll as Archbishop of Canberra (Australia's national capital).

The Holy Father has appointed as the new Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge, 57, up to now Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne. Archbishop-elect Coleridge was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Melbourne in 1974 and worked in several parishes before being sent for studies in Rome in 1980. He studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute until 1984 and obtained a License in Sacred Scripture. He then taught Scripture at Melbourne's Catholic Theological College (CTC) until 1988 when he returned to the Biblicum in Rome to earn his Doctorate degree. With that degree in hand, he returned to the CTC before being summoned back again to Rome in 1998 to work in the General Affairs section of the Secretariat of State. In 2002, he was named and consecrated Auxiliary Bishop for Melbourne. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the Roman Missal Editorial Committee of the International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL).