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“Today,” Archbishop Fisher noted in his homily, “I am pleased to be ordaining men of Australian, Canadian, Chinese, Dominican, Irish, Korean, Lebanese, Malaysian and Mexican backgrounds … and,” he quipped, “most exotic of all, one from Brisbane.”ĭiverse group represents a changing Church in Australia Meanwhile, the seven presented to the Archbishop to be ordained seemed more like a quickly-assembled committee of the United Nations – illustrating, in their own way, the changing nature of the face of the Church in Sydney and around Australia. Good-natured members of the congregation who had arrived early found themselves sacrificing seats to the elderly and infirm filtering in as the cathedral accommodated one of the largest crowds it has seen in years.įr Moises Tapia Carrasco is hugged by his sister after vesting as a priest following his ordination to the priesthood in St Mary’s Cathedral on 3 August.
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Just half an hour later, hundreds were left standing in aisles and leaning against the towering neo-Gothic sandstone walls and columns of the cathedral, sitting out of sight behind the high altar or in the Cathedral Crypt where they later followed the ceremony on television. Photo: Giovanni PortelliĪt 9.30am, an hour before the ceremony was set to commence, the Cathedral was already packed. It seemed as if half of Sydney had turned up for one of the largest ordinations seen in years.įr Joseph Murphy blesses Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP after having been ordained to the priesthood by the Archbishop in St Mary’s Cathedral on 3 August. St Mary’s was filled to overflowing with well-over 2000 people as the Archbishop ordained seven men to the priesthood: four from the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Homebush, two from the Archdiocesan Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Chester Hill and the seventh a member of the Dominican Order, of which Archbishop Fisher is also a member. On a cold, bright late Winter morning today Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP filed into St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney accompanied by 138 priests by the time he processed out, that number had grown to 145.Īs Sydneysiders strolled through Hyde Park’s leafy, picturesque grounds just across the road, and with the sound of an outdoors rock band thumping faintly in the background, one of the Church’s most ancient ceremonies played itself out over the next two and a half hours. By Peter Rosengren -AugSydney’s newly-ordained Fathers (from left) Miguel Campos, John Jang, William Chow, Joseph Murphy, William Loh OP, Moises Tapia Carrasco and Ronnie Maree pose for the camera after their ordination to the priesthood in Sydney on 3 August.