Diocese of

Wagga Wagga

Australia

Continent: Oceania

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Wagga Wagga / Corvopolitan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Sydney

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop (August 8)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1917.07.28: Established as Diocese of Wagga Wagga / Corvopolitan(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Goulburn and became suffragan of Sydney)

Contact Info

Address: 205 Tarcutta St., PO Box 473, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia

Phone: +61 2 6921 5667

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.05.26 – ...):

Bishop Mark Stuart Edwards, O.M.I. (65)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Wagga Wagga (Roman Rite)

Bishop Mark Stuart Edwards, O.M.I. (65)
(2020.05.26 – ...)

Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia)

Learn who you are in the eyes of God

Born:	1959.06.14 (Balikpapan, Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia)
Ordained Priest:	1986.08.16
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.12.17

Titular Bishop of Garba (2014.11.07 – 2020.05.26)

Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne (Australia) (2014.11.07 – 2020.05.26)

Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (2020.05.26 – ...)

Archbishop Christopher Charles Prowse (71)
(Apostolic Administrator 2016.09.12 – 2020.05.26)

Bishop Gerard Joseph Hanna (83)
(2002.02.05 – 2016.09.12)

Bishop emeritus of Wagga Wagga (Australia)

To proclaim love

Born:	1941.12.22 (Armidale, New South Wales, Australia)
Ordained Priest:	1968.12.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.05.15

Priest of Armidale (Australia) (1968.12.09 – 2002.02.05)

Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (2002.02.05 – 2016.09.12)

Bishop William John Brennan
(1984.01.16 – 2002.02.05)

Born:	1938.02.16 (Australia)
Ordained Priest:	1960.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.03.01
Died:	2013.08.31 († 75)

Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (1984.01.16 – 2002.02.05)

Bishop Francis Patrick Carroll (later Archbishop)
(1968.02.24 – 1983.06.25)

Born:	1930.09.09 (Ganmain, New South Wales, Australia)
Ordained Priest:	1954.07.27
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.09.05
Died:	2024.03.14 (Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia † 93)

Priest of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (1954.07.27 – 1967.06.12)

Titular Bishop of Tasaccora (1967.06.12 – 1968.02.24)

Coadjutor Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (1967.06.12 – 1968.02.24)

Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (1968.02.24 – 1983.06.25)

Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn (Australia) (1983.06.25 – 2006.06.19)

President of Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (2000 – 2006.05.05)

Bishop Francis Augustin Henschke
(1939.11.16 – 1968.02.24)

Born:	1892.01.02 (Australia)
Ordained Priest:	1917.06.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1937.08.15
Died:	1968.02.24 († 76)

Titular Bishop of Prænetus (1937.05.19 – 1939.11.16)

Auxiliary Bishop of Adelaide (Australia) (1937.05.19 – 1939.11.16)

Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (1939.11.16 – 1968.02.24)

Bishop Joseph Wilfrid Dwyer
(1918.03.14 – 1939.10.11)

Born:	1869.10.12 (Australia)
Ordained Priest:	1894.05.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1918.10.13
Died:	1939.10.11 († 69)

Bishop of Wagga Wagga (Australia) (1918.03.14 – 1939.10.11)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Francis Patrick Carroll (later Archbishop) (1967.06.12 – 1968.02.24)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St Michael’s Cathedral, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (57)

Sandhurst (↙), Wilcannia–Forbes (↖), Canberra and Goulburn (→), Sale (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 62,160 km²

Population: 58,388 Catholics (26.5% of 219,967 total)

Pastoral Centres: 32 parishes

Personnel: 47 priests (42 diocesan, 5 religious), 1 deacon, 79 religious (14 brothers, 65 sisters), 10 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2025.04.02

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