Bishop Peter Mel Murphy

Bishop of Armidale, Australia

Motto: In Omnibus Caritas

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jun 1961	63.88	Born
11 Jul 1992	31.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wagga Wagga, Australia
26 Feb 2025	63.6	Appointed	Bishop of Armidale, Australia
8 May 2025	63.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Armidale, Australia

MicroData Summary
Peter Mel Murphy
Bishop Peter Mel Murphy
(born 28 Jun 1961)
Bishop of Armidale

Event Place
Birth Place Benalla (Victoria), Diocese of Sandhurst
Ordained Priest St. Michael, Cathedral, Wagga Wagga, Diocese of Wagga Wagga
Ordained Bishop Saints Mary and Joseph, Cathedral, Armidale, Diocese of Armidale

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Armidale.

a priest for 32.85 years
a bishop for 0.02 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop William John Brennan †
Bishop of Wagga Wagga
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher, O.P.
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michael Robert Kennedy
Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle
Bishop Mark Stuart Edwards, O.M.I.
Bishop of Wagga Wagga

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher, O.P. (2003)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop George Pell † (1987)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little † (1973)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

External Link(s):

VIAF: 311214191
WikiData: Q132783153

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 26 Feb 2025
c1: CB, 4 May 2025
c2+: CB, 8 May 2025

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