Philip Wilson (bishop), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian Roman Catholic bishop
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Place of Birth: Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia
About Philip Wilson (bishop)
- Philip Edward Wilson (born 2 October 1950) is a retired Australian bishop who was the eighth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide from 2001 to 2018.
- He was President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference from 2006 to 2010.
- From 1996 to 2001 Wilson was bishop of the Diocese of Wollongong, where he gained a reputation as a "healing bishop" for handling child-abuse scandals.In 2018 Wilson was at first convicted, but then acquitted on appeal, of failing to report in 2004 allegations of child sexual abuse against another priest when he was an assistant parish priest in East Maitland, New South Wales in 1976.
- After the conviction but before the acquittal, he resigned as archbishop and commenced serving his sentence under home detention.
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