Peter William Ingham was born at Crows Nest, NSW, on 19 January 1941. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Sydney by His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy at St Mary’s Cathedral on 18 July 1964. Following some parish appointments, he spent six years as private secretary to His Eminence Cardinal Freeman and general secretary of the Archdiocese for 10 years. He was nominated a prelate of honour 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 auxiliary bishop of Sydney on 12 July 1993 by His Eminence Cardinal Clancy. He was installed as the fourth bishop of Wollongong on 25 July 2001. In July 2013, Bishop Ingham celebrated the 20th anniversary of his episcopal ordination and on 18 July 2014 he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Bishop Ingham retired on 30 November 2017. On 11 March 2020, Bishop Ingham was appointed apostolic visitator of the Diocese of Broome. Bishop Ingham died on 26 April 2024.
MOST REV PHILIP E WILSON DD JCL
Third Bishop of Wollongong
Philip Edward Wilson was born at Cessnock, NSW, on 2 October 1950. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle on 23 August 1975. In 1987, he was appointed vicar general to Bishop Leo Clarke in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle. He studied Canon Law in Washington DC, obtaining his licentiate in Canon Law in May 1992. He returned to Washington in 1995 to complete his doctorate, but had his studies interrupted on being appointed bishop of Wollongong on 12 April 1996.
He was ordained third bishop of Wollongong on 10 July 1996. Bishop Wilson was appointed coadjutor archbishop of Adelaide on 30 November 2000 and was installed as archbishop of Adelaide on 3 December 2001. Archbishop Wilson resigned as the archbishop of Adelaide on 30 July 2018. Archbishop Wilson died on 17 January 2021.
MOST REV WILLIAM E MURRAY AM DD DScSoc
Second Bishop of Wollongong
William Edward Murray was born in Leichhardt, NSW, on 16 February 1920. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Sydney on 21 July 1945.
He studied in Rome between 1955 and 1958 gaining a doctorate in Social Science. He was subsequently spokesman for the Archdiocese of Sydney and director of the Catholic Information Bureau. Prior to being appointed a bishop, Dr Murray was rector of St Columba’s College in Springwood.
He was ordained second bishop of Wollongong on 21 July 1975 at St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong. Bishop Murray retired as the bishop of Wollongong in February 1996 and died on 21 April 2013.
MOST REV THOMAS A MCCABE DD
First Bishop of Wollongong
Thomas Absolem McCabe was born at South West Rocks, NSW, on 30 June 1902.
He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Lismore on 20 December 1925. On 12 March 1939, he was ordained as bishop of Port Pirie (Port Augusta), South Australia, and on 15 November 1951 was appointed the first bishop of Wollongong. He was installed at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Wollongong on 24 February 1952.
Due to ill health, Bishop McCabe resigned on 10 May 1974. Bishop McCabe died at Polding Villa, Glebe, on the feast of the Holy Cross on 14 September 1983.
Service Agreement
Definitions
Account means the account held at your financial institution from which we are authorised to arrange for funds to be debited.
Agreement means this Direct Debit Request Service Agreement between you and us, including the direct debit request.
Business day means a day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a listed public holiday.
Debit day means the day that payment is due.
Debit payment means a particular transaction where a debit is made, according to your direct debit request.
Direct debit request means the Direct Debit Request between us and you.
Us and we and our means the Catholic Development Fund.
You means the customer(s) who signed the direct debit request. Your financial institution is the financial institution where you hold the account that you have authorised us to arrange to debit.
Debiting your account
By submitting a direct debit request, you have authorised us to arrange for funds to be debited from your account according to the agreement we have with you.
We will only arrange for funds to be debited from your account:
As authorised in the direct debit request; if the debit day falls on a day that is not a business day, we may direct your financial institution to debit your account on the following or previous business day. If you are unsure about which day your account has or will be debited, please check with your financial
Changes by you
If you wish to stop or defer a debit payment you must write to us at least 5 business days before the next debit day.
This notice should be given to us in the first instance.
Your obligations
It is your responsibility to ensure that there are sufficient clear funds available in your account to allow a debit payment to be made.
If there are insufficient clear funds available in your account to meet a debit payment:
you or your account may be charged a fee and/or interest by your financial institution;
you or your account may be charged a fee to reimburse us for charges we have incurred for the failed transaction;
you must arrange for the payment to be made by another method
Please check your account statement to verify that the amounts debited from your account are correct.
Dispute
If you believe that there has been an error in debiting your account you should call us on 1800 047 703 and confirm the details in writing with us as soon as possible so that we can resolve your query quickly.
Accounts
You should check:
with your financial institution whether direct debiting is available from your accounts offered by financial
your account details which you have provided to us are correct by checking them against a recent account statement; and
with your financial institution before completing the direct debit request if you have any queries about how to complete the direct debit
Warning: if the account number you have quoted is incorrect, you may be charged a fee to reimburse our costs in correcting any deductions from:
an account you do not have authority to operate; or
an account you do not
Confidentiality
We will keep any information (including your account details) in your direct debit request confidential.
We will make reasonable efforts to keep any such information that we have about you secure and to ensure that any of our employees or agents who have access to information about you, do not make any unauthorised use, modification, reproduction or disclosure of that information.
However, we may use your contact details to provide information about the fund. Should you wish this not to be the case, please advise the fund in writing.
Our diocesan logo is theologically rich and very succinct. As a hand, it depicts our mission as a diocese and as individuals within the diocese, of bearing (bringing, carrying) Christ’s love to one another and to the world around us. In this, we are the hand of Jesus Christ, and we are offering ourselves to him so that he might work through us.
We can be the bearers of his love only as a response to his call and in the strength of his grace. We are reminded of this in two ways—through the symbol of the dove (the Holy Spirit) also present in the logo, and by the incorporation of the cross that segments the logo. The presence of the cross is a reminder that bearing the love of Christ will inevitably cost us if we live it authentically. However, in the way that the Cross is the portent of redemption and life—an echo of the tree of life in the book of Genesis—so becoming bearers of the love of Christ will also bring us to life.
The four fingers of the hand also represent the four regions of our diocese. The first is bluerepresenting the beautiful water of the Shoalhaven. The second is a blue and green combination representing the waters and escarpment of the Illawarra. The third is greendepicting the hills and plains of the Macarthur. The fourth is dark green illustrating the forests of the Southern Highlands.
