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Diocese of Wollongong

Bishop of Wollongong
Most Rev Brian Mascord DD
PO Box 1239
Wollongong NSW 2500
Xavier Centre
38 Harbour St
Wollongong NSW 2500
Ph: (02) 4222 2402
Vicar General    
Very Rev Bernard Gordon VG

Vicar General

Office of the Bishop
PO Box 1239
Wollongong NSW 2500
Ph: (02) 4222 2468
Dean    
Rev John Ho (Hume Deanery)

Dean

Rev Kenneth Cafe OFM (Keira Deanery)

Dean

Rev Damien Ellis (Flinders Deanery)

Dean

Financial Administrator    
Mr Greg Parrish

Financial Administrator

PO Box 1239
Wollongong NSW 2500
Xavier Centre
38 Harbour St
Wollongong NSW 2500
Ph: (02) 4222 2498
Tribunal    
Tribunal

PO Box 2090
Wollongong NSW 2500
Ph: (02) 4222 2410
Very Rev Kenneth Cafe OFM

Episcopal Vicar for Canonical Services

Episcopal Vicar    
Very Rev Sean Cullen PP EV

Episcopal Vicar for Clergy

PO Box 1400
Bowral NSW 2576
Ph: (02) 4861 1892
Vicar    
Sr Kerry Gardiner RSJ

Vicar for Religious

3 Grace St
Unanderra NSW 2526
Ph: 0421 463 871
Diocesan Office    
Office of Renewal and Evangelisation

Mr Jude Hennessy

Director of the Office of Renewal & Evangelisation

Ph: (02) 4222 2403
Ph: 0408 236 191
Mr Peter Gilmore

Coordinator of Evangelisation and Parish Renewal

Ph: (02) 4222 2463
Ph: 0411 724 483
Mrs Frances Fairs

Coordinator of Confraternity of Christian Doctrine

Ph: (02) 4222 2464
Ph: 0427 475 339

Mrs Meg McAlister

Diocesan Youth Ministry Coordinator

Ph: (02) 4222 2429
Ph: 0450 411 114
Office of the Bishop

PO Box 1239
Wollongong NSW 2500
Xavier Centre
38 Harbour St
Wollongong NSW 2500
Ph: (02) 4222 2400
Mr Greg Parrish

Chief Operations Manager

Ph: (02) 4222 2498
Ms Robin Williams

Senior Executive Assistant to the Bishop

Ph: (02) 4222 2402
Ms Asante Viswasam

Professional Standards and Safeguarding

Ph: (02) 4222 2405
Mrs Sue Daniels

Clergy Care Co-ordinator

Ph: (02) 4222 2425
Mr Daniel Hopper

Director of Creative Communications

Ph: (02) 4222 2461
Ms Biliana Jones

Property Officer

Ph: (02) 4222 2424
Ms Debbie Gates

Director of Development & Community Engagement

Ph: (02) 4222 2446

Boundaries

Comprising the territory in New South Wales as follows: Commencing in the south at a point from the Pacific Coast along the northern shore of Durras Lake; by the Shoalhaven Shire boundary to the point at which the Nowra-Nerriga Road crosses the Pigeon House Range; by a direct line to the source of the Ettrema Creek; by Ettrema Creek to its confluence with the Shoalhaven River; by the Shoalhaven River, Barbers and Urangalla Creek, Paddy's and Wollondilly Rivers to the junction of the Wollondilly River and Guineacor Creek; by a direct line to Mount Werong; to the junction of Cox's River and the Wollondilly River; by the Warragamba River to its junction with Monkey Creek and the Wollondilly River; by a direct line to the junction of Northern Road and Greendale Road; by Bringelly Road to the Hume Highway; by the Hume Highway to the Cross Roads; by Glenfield Road and Canterbury Road to the Southern Railway; by a line due east to the George's River; by the George's River to Oxford Road; by Oxford Road and Albert Road and its extension to William's Creek; by William's Creek upstream to a point on this Creek due east of Campbelltown Railway Station; from this point by direct line to Eckersley Trigonometrical Station; by direct line to the junction of the Illawarra Railway and the Southern boundary of National Park; by the southern boundary of National Park in an easterly direction to the Pacific Ocean. Area: 11,338 sq km.