Peter Elliott (bishop)

The Most Reverend Peter John Elliott, MA, STD, DD, VG, EV (born 1 October 1943 in Melbourne) is Australian prelate of the Catholic Church. Before retiring, he last served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne from 2007 to 2018. He is also an author, writing a number of published works that predominately concern the celebration of Catholic liturgy .

The Most Reverend

Peter Elliott
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne
ArchdioceseMelbourne
SeeMelbourne
Appointed30 April 2007
Term ended3 November 2018
Other postsTitular Bishop of Manaccenser (2007-)
Orders
Ordination19 February 1973
by Lawrence Joseph Shehan
Consecration30 April 2007
by Denis James Hart (co-consecrators: George Pell, and Ambrose Battista De Paoli
RankBishop
Personal details
Birth namePeter John Elliott
Born (1943-10-03) October 3, 1943
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
DenominationRoman Catholic
EducationMelbourne Grammar School
Alma mater
MottoParare Vias Eius (Prepare His Way)
Coat of arms
Styles of
Peter Elliott
Reference styleThe Most Reverend
Spoken styleHis Lordship or My Lord Bishop
Religious styleBishop

Personal Life and Background

Bishop Elliot grew up in Melbourne, were his father served as an Anglican priest. Bishop Elliott is a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism.[1]

He is of partial Sorbian descent. His maternal grandmother came from a family Lutheran Sorbs who immigrated to the Wimmera region of Victoria, from what is now the German state of Saxony in the early 19th century.[2] Their emigration from Germany was motivated by their dissent from the union of Lutheran and Calvinist churches that had recently taken place there.[2]

Education

Elliott earned an honours degree in history from the University of Melbourne, during which he was a resident student at Trinity College. He was then awarded the Marley Studentship to study at the Trinity College Theological School.[3] He later read theology at the University of Oxford. In addition, he completed his Doctorate in Sacramental Theology (S.T.D.) from the Pontifical Lateran University's Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome.[4]

Ordained Ministry

Priesthood

On 19 February 1973, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Melbourne by Archbishop Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore during the 40th International Eucharistic Congress, which took place in the same city.

Ministry in the Roman Curia

Beginning in 1987, he spent a decade serving on the Pontifical Council for the Family at the Vatican.[4]

Elliott has also served in the Roman Curia as a consultator for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and as a member of Anglicanae Traditiones, the inter-dicasterial commission charged preparing the liturgical books to be used by the Personal Ordinariates that Pope Benedict XVI established for Anglican converts to Catholicism.[4]

Episcopacy

On 30 April 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him the fifteenth auxiliary bishop of Melbourne and the titular bishop of Manaccenser.[5] He received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne on 15 June, with Archbishops George Cardinal Pell of Sydney and Ambrose Battista De Paoli, the Holy See's Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, serving as principal co-consecrators.[6]

Following his ordination as a bishop, he was served on both the Bishops' Liturgy Commission and the National Liturgical Council of Australia.[7]

Pope Francis announced in November 2018 that he had accepted Elliott's resignation, which was submitted on reaching the retirement age of 75.

Bibliography
  • Prayers of Jubilee: A Personal Prayerbook for Catholics (1976, Our Sunday Visitor)
  • The Cross and the Ensign: A Naval History of Malta (1982, HarperCollins)
  • What God Has Joined (1990, Alba House)
  • Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite (1995, Ignatius Press)
    • Published the following year in Spanish as Guía práctica de liturgia by Ediciones Universidad de Navarra.
  • Ceremonies of the Liturgical Year (2002, Ignatius Press)
  • Liturgical Question Box (2018, Ignatius Press)
  • Ceremonies Explained for Servers: A Manual for Altar Servers, Acolytes, Sacristans, and Masters of Ceremonies (2020, Ignatius Press)
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References
  1. http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s3592594.htm
  2. https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/bishop-peter-elliott-life-times-martin-luther-part-1
  3. "Academic Distinctions", The Fleur-de-Lys, 1966, pp. 53, 53.
  4. "Bishop Peter J. Elliott, Author at Homiletic & Pastoral Review". Homiletic & Pastoral Review. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  5. "Rinunce e Nomine, 30.04.2007" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. 30 April 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  6. "Bishop Peter John Elliott [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  7. Elliott, Peter J. (Peter John), 1943- (2019). Ceremonies explained for servers : a manual for servers, acolytes, sacristans, and masters of ceremonies. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press. ISBN 1-62164-299-2. OCLC 1105277187.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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