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Fr Columba’s going ‘back to his people’

byStaff writers
14 April 2014 - Updated on 1 April 2021
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New role: Bishop Elect Pauline Father Columba Macbeth-Green.

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New role: Bishop Elect Pauline Father Columba Macbeth-Green.
New role: Bishop Elect Pauline Father Columba Macbeth-Green.

By Paul Dobbyn

BRISBANE archdiocese’s Pauline Father Columba Macbeth-Green had several reasons for total surprise on learning he’d been named Wilcannia-Forbes diocese’s seventh bishop.

Firstly, the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (OSPPE) to which he belongs “has only one bishop in the whole world”.

“The order is normally out of the limelight,” he said, “so becoming a bishop was the last thing I would ever have expected.”

“And there’s also the fact that usually a bishop will have some sort of administration experience … be dean of a cathedral or whatever,” he said.

Fr Macbeth-Green received news of his posting with a mixture of excitement and sadness.

The excitement came from his return to his hometown Forbes where mother, Lorna still lives.

“So I’m going back to my people,” he said.

“I know what I’m going into – where to get the best coffee and so on.”

 Read more in next Sunday’s Leader

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