17 Facts About Columba Macbeth-Green

Columba Macbeth-Green was born on 30 June 1968 and is an Australian Roman Catholic bishop of the Pauline Fathers, who currently serves as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes.

Until the episcopal ordination of Bishop Richard Umbers on 24 August 2016, Bishop Macbeth-Green was the youngest Catholic bishop in Australia.

Columba Macbeth-Green was born in Forbes to Paul and Lorna Green.

Columba Macbeth-Green was raised on a sheep and wheat farm at Gunningbland, west of Forbes and Parkes.

Columba Macbeth-Green was educated at St Laurence O'Toole Primary School and Red Bend Catholic College, both in Forbes.

Columba Macbeth-Green then joined the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit in 1990, a semi-contemplative order founded in 1215 in Hungary who observe the Rule of St Augustine.

Columba Macbeth-Green studied for the priesthood at Vianney College in Wagga Wagga.

Columba Macbeth-Green was ordained as a priest in the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit on 22 November 1997.

From 2000 to 2014, Columba Macbeth-Green served as a police chaplain, initially at a local level.

Columba Macbeth-Green joined the Camden local area command in 2002 and remained with them until 2006.

Columba Macbeth-Green was then appointed police chaplain for the South Eastern Region in Queensland in 2011.

Columba Macbeth-Green replaced Bishop Christopher Toohey who had retired in 2009, ending the five-year absence of a bishop for the diocese.

Columba Macbeth-Green was ordained as a bishop on 3 July 2014 by Papal Nuncio Archbishop Paul Gallagher at Holy Family Church in Parkes.

Columba Macbeth-Green was installed as bishop on 5 July 2014.

Columba Macbeth-Green is a fan of country music and plays the bagpipes, which he learned when he was 15.

Columba Macbeth-Green has played in Scotland twice at the world pipe band championships.

Columba Macbeth-Green learned to play the violin while at high school and played the organ in the church in Forbes.