Bishop Mark William Freeman

Bishop of Ballarat, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Sep 1959		Born
24 Aug 1984	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hobart, Australia
7 Jan 2026	66.3	Appointed	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
19 Mar 2026	66.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia

MicroData Summary
Mark William Freeman
Bishop Mark William Freeman
(born 13 Sep 1959)
Bishop of Ballarat

Event Place
Birth Place Launceston, Tasmania, Archdiocese of Hobart
Ordained Priest St. Finn Barr, Church, Invermay, Archdiocese of Hobart
Ordained Bishop St. Patrick's, Cathedral, Ballarat, Diocese of Ballarat

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ballarat.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Guilford Clyde Young †
Archbishop of Hobart
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Andrew Comensoli
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Anthony John Ireland
Archbishop of Hobart
Bishop Paul Bernard Bird, C.Ss.R.
Bishop Emeritus of Ballarat

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Andrew Comensoli (2011)
Archbishop of Melbourne
George Cardinal Pell † (1987)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little † (1973)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q137719666

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 7 Jan 2026
ob/mn: CB, 7 Jan 2026
c2+: CB, 18 Mar 2026

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