Timothy Costelloe

{{Short description |Australian prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1954)}} {{similar names|Timothy Costelloe (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2012}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Timothy Costelloe | honorific-suffix = SDB | title = Archbishop of Perth | image = Costelloe 2007 May b.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = Costelloe in May 2007 | church = Catholic Church | province = | archdiocese = Perth | see = | appointed = 20 February 2012 | enthroned = 21 March 2012 | ended = | predecessor = Barry Hickey | successor = | ordination = 25 October 1986 | ordained_by = Frank Little | consecration = 15 June 2007 | consecrated_by = {{br list | Denis Hart | George Pell (co-consecrator) | {{nowrap | Ambrose De Paoli (co-consecrator)}} }} | cardinal = | rank = | other_post = President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (2022–) | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne (2007–2012)|Titular Bishop of Cluain Iraird (2007–2012)}} | birth_name = Timothy John Costelloe | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|02|03|df=yes}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | buried = | nationality =  | religion =  | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | profession =  | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Salesian Pontifical University|Melbourne College of Divinity}} | signature = | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Timothy Costelloe.svg | motto = ''{{Langx|la|Via veritas vita|lit=The way, the truth, and the life}}'' }} {{Ordination | ordained deacon by = | date of diaconal ordination = | place of diaconal ordination = | ordained priest by = Frank Little (Melbourne) | date of priestly ordination = 25 October 1986 | place of priestly ordination = St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne | consecrated by = Denis Hart (Melbourne) | co-consecrators = George Pell (Sydney)<br />Ambrose De Paoli (Apostolic Nuncio to Australia) | date of consecration = 15 June 2007 | place of consecration = St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne | elevated by = | date of elevation = | bishop 1 = Michael Henry Morrissey | consecration date 1 = 28 June 2017 | bishop 2 = | consecration date 2 = | bishop 3 = | consecration date 3 = | bishop 4 = | consecration date 4 = | sources = }} {{infobox bishopstyles | name=Timothy Costelloe | dipstyle= The Most Reverend | offstyle= Your Grace | relstyle= Archbishop | deathstyle=not applicable | image=Coat of arms of Timothy Costelloe.svg| image_size = 200px }} '''Timothy John Costelloe''', SDB (born 3 February 1954) is an Australian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Perth since 2012. He is a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

==Life and ministry== Costelloe was born in Melbourne on 3 February 1954. Educated there at St Peter's East Bentleigh and Salesian College, Chadstone, he commenced teacher training at Christ College, Melbourne, before joining the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1977. He graduated from Christ College in 1978. Professed as a Salesian in 1985, Costelloe was ordained as a priest on 25 October 1986 by Archbishop Sir Frank Little in Melbourne.<ref name=cam>{{cite web |url=http://www.cam.org.au/bishops/bishop-timothy-costelloe-sdb.html |title=Bishop Timothy Costelloe SDB |work=Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne |access-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222080155/http://www.cam.org.au/bishops/bishop-timothy-costelloe-sdb.html |archive-date=22 February 2012}}</ref>

After three years at Salesian College, Chadstone, he was transferred to Rome where he completed a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Salesian Pontifical University in 1991. On his return to Melbourne, Costelloe began lecturing in theology at Catholic Theological College in Melbourne. Transferred to Perth in 1996, Costelloe served as parish priest St Joachim's Victoria Park and lectured at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle. He completed his doctorate in theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity. He returned to Melbourne in 1999, was appointed as rector to the Salesian community, and resumed teaching commitments at the Catholic Theological College. He was appointed as parish priest of St John the Baptist's Clifton Hill in 2006 and as parish priest of the adjoining St Joseph'sCollingwood in 2007. During this period he also held a number of senior positions in the Salesian order.<ref name=cam/>

thumb|Costelloe in 2013

===Episcopate=== In April 2007, Costelloe was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne and titular bishop of Cluain Iraird. He was consecrated on 15 June 2007 by Denis Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne, with Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, and Ambrose De Paoli, apostolic nuncio to Australia) as co-consecrators.<ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bcostet|Archbishop Timothy John Costelloe|16 July 2021}}</ref>

With a strong interest in Catholic education, Costelloe held a number of senior roles in the Melbourne archdiocese, including being the episcopal vicar for tertiary education and the chair of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria. An adjunct professor at the Australian Catholic University, he is also a member of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Commission for Catholic Education.<ref name=cam/>

In February 2012 Pope Benedict XVI named Costelloe to succeed Barry Hickey as Archbishop of Perth.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Archdiocese of Perth |date=17 February 2012 |url=http://www.catholic.org.au/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=1237&Itemid=355 |format=downloadable PDF |access-date=21 February 2012 |publisher=Apostolic Nunciature in Australia }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/pope-appoints-new-head-of-catholic-church-in-wa/story-e6frg13u-1226276378075|title=Pope appoints new head of Catholic Church in WA|author=Cardy, Todd|work=PerthNow|date=20 February 2012|access-date=19 February 2012}}</ref> On 21 March 2012 he was installed as archbishop at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth.<ref name=perthinstall>{{cite web |url=http://www.cam.org.au/news/perth-welcomes-archbishop-timothy-costelloe-sdb.html |title=Perth welcomes Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB |author=Power, Fiona |date=23 March 2012 |publisher=Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne |access-date=4 April 2012 }}</ref>

As archbishop, he inaugurated the Vincentian Retreat Centre Perth in Karrakup on 29 July 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.vincentianretreatcentre.org.au/about-us/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Vincentian Retreat Centre |language=en-US}}</ref>

On 23 October 2024, the Synod of Bishops elected Costelloe a member of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-10/synod-elects-new-members-secretariat-ordinary-council.html |title=Synod elects new members to Ordinary Council |work=Vatican News |date=24 October 2024 |access-date=24 October 2024}}</ref>

Costelloe is the Grand Prior of the Western Australia Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/oessh/luogotenenze_en.html|title=The Lieutenancies of the World Lieutenants and Grand Priors|access-date=2025-05-26}}</ref>

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