Anthony Joseph Burgess

Joseph Anthony Burgess ( born July 29, 1938 in Singleton, † October 23, 2013 in Sydney) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Wewak.

Life

Joseph Anthony Burgess received on 23 July 1967, the ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Hobart.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 10 May 2000 on the Coadjutor Bishop of Wewak. The Bishop of Wewak, Raymond Philip Kalisz SVD, consecrated him on 27 September of the same year to the bishop; Co-consecrators Austen Robin Crapp were OFM, Bishop of Aitape, and Brian James Barnes, OFM, Archbishop of Port Moresby.

After the retirement Raymond Philip Kalisz ' SVD followed him on 14 August 2002 by the Bishop of Wewak. On September 20, 2013 Francis Pope accepted his resignation age-related.

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