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Place of Birth: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
About Brian Mascord
- Brian Gregory Mascord (born 30 January 1959 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is the fifth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wollongong. He is the son of Ron Mascord and Margaret Callinan.
- He was educated at St.
- Joseph's Catholic School, Charlestown and St Pius X College, Adamstown.Before entering St.
- Patrick's Seminary in Manly, Mascord earned a diploma of teaching at the Catholic College of Education (now part of the Australian Catholic University) in Castle Hill, spending six years teaching in a Catholic primary school.
- He received the sacrament of Holy Orders on 31 October 1992 at the Sacred Heart Church in Hamilton.He then worked in a parish in pastoral care, before becoming pastor of the parish of St.
- Mary MacKillop in Charlestown, New South Wales, director of the pastoral ministry in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle and a member of the diocesan committee for the liturgy.
- Since 2013, Mascord was also Vicar General of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.On 30 November 2017, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Wollongong.
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