Thursday,
26 June 2025
Year of transition for local Catholics

CATHOLICS throughout the Alpine Shire have already welcomed a new pope this year, and will soon also have a new bishop, with current Sandhurst Diocese Bishop Shane Mackinlay appointed as the new Archbishop of Brisbane.

Pope Leo XIV, who was elected in May, announced last week that Bishop Mackinlay would replace retiring Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge.

Bishop Mackinlay said he was deeply honou...

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