{"id":9842,"date":"2024-05-10T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T03:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/?post_type=article&p=9842"},"modified":"2024-05-10T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T03:59:33","slug":"from-the-principal-64","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mscw\/article\/from-the-principal-64\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to Term 2!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope that students, staff and families enjoyed a happy and restful break over the holiday period. I\u2019m looking forward to the term ahead and the many opportunities our students take to engage and excel in the classroom as well as in all co-curricular activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RIP Bishop Peter Ingham: Good Friend of our College <\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Bishop Peter Ingham was a strong supporter of MSCW and celebrated significant masses for us. A gentle, humble man. One of the great ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, <\/span>the Solemn Pontifical Mass of Christian Burial for Bishop Peter Ingham took place at St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong.<\/span> On Wednesday night, Archbishop Fisher celebrated a Requiem Mass for Bishop Peter Ingham at St Mary\u2019s Cathedral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bishop Peter Ingham was ordained a priest on 18 July 1964. In his early ministry in the Archdiocese of Sydney he served as Assistant Priest in Rosebury, Newtown, St Mary\u2019s (near Penrith) and Auburn South followed by six years as private secretary to Cardinal Sir James Freeman and ten years as Secretary of the Archdiocese of Sydney. He was nominated a Prelate of Honour (Monsignor) to his holiness Pope John Paul II in 1986. In 1990, he returned to parish ministry as Parish Priest of St Charles, Ryde. He was ordained an auxiliary Bishop of Sydney in 1993 by his Eminence Cardinal Edward Clancy, with the title of Bishop of Pudenziana. Bishop Peter Ingham was installed as the fourth Bishop of Wollongong on 25 July 2001.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n