Bishop of Sale
Msgr. Gregory Charles Bennet was born on 7 April 1963 in the archdiocese of Melbourne. He attended Catholic schools in Melbourne and then the Ecumenical Braemer College in Woodend. He worked in the Commercial Bank of Australia before attending the Melbourne Regional Seminary in 1986, and completed his ecclesiastical studies at Catholic Theological College in Melbourne. He was ordained a priest in 1992 for the archdiocese of Melbourne. In 1996 he was sent to the United States to study pastoral psychology at Loyola College in Baltimore. In 1998 he studied spirituality at the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where he obtained his licentiate in Spirituality. Subsequently, he held the following positions: director of the Ministry to Priests (2000-2005); director of the Office for Evangelisation (2004-2008); pastor of North Baldwin (2007-2012); and vicar general and moderator of the Curia (since 2012). In addition, he served as vice president of the economic council, president of the personnel office, secretary of the Roman Catholic Trusts’ corporation and chaplain of the State Parliament of Victoria. On May 9, 2012 he was appointed Honorary Prelate of His Holiness. He is currently pastor of Saint Joseph’s, West Brunswick, Melbourne.