3021 Archbishop-elect Tim Costelloe SDB, Perth, Western Australia
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Archbishop-elect
Tim Costelloe SDB, Perth, Western
Australia
by
Fr
Greg Chambers SDB, Provincial Australia-Pacific
MELBOURNE: 20 February 2012 --
Dear Salesians and
Members of the Salesian Family,
I wish to inform you that at 12.00 noon today (20 Feb.,
2012) in
Rome, Pope Benedict XVI officially appointed our Salesian
confrere,
Bishop Tim Costelloe SDB DD, currently Auxiliary Bishop of
Melbourne,
as the new Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia. Tim will be
formally
installed as Archbishop on Wednesday 21 March in St Mary’s
Cathedral,
Perth.
We warmly congratulate Tim on his appointment and offer him
our sincere
prayers and support as he takes on this key leadership and
pastoral
role within the Catholic Church Community in Western
Australia. At the
same time, we assure him of our ongoing Salesian friendship
and
solidarity in the years ahead, and reaffirm the fact that he
will
always be a most valued member of the Family of Don Bosco in
the
Province of Australia-Pacific and throughout the world.
Finally, we will be having a ‘Farewell’ Celebration for
Archbishop-Elect Tim at our Province Centre in Ascot Vale
sometime in
March. We will let you know the precise details when they come
to hand.
