Martin Ashe was born on 27 September 1953 and is an Irish-Australian Catholic bishop.
14 Facts About Martin Ashe
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Martin Ashe has served as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne since 2021.
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Martin Ashe was the eldest of 11 children and his family life was immersed in the Catholic faith.
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Martin Ashe's uncle was a priest in Australian and he had a number of cousins who were in religious congregations.
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Martin Ashe was the altar server at the local St Mary's Cathedral parish for a number of years and by the time he was 18, decided to enter the seminary.
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Martin Ashe entered All Hallow College, Dublin, a seminary established for priests who would be sent overseas, in 1971.
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Martin Ashe was ordained in Ireland by Archbishop Tomas O'Fiaich in June 1978, when he was 24 years old.
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Martin Ashe was immediately appointed to be a priest for the Archdiocese of Melbourne, arriving in September 1978.
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Martin Ashe was first appointed to the Hadfield parish in Melbourne's north.
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Martin Ashe has served as an assistant priest in parishes in Clayton and Blackburn.
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Martin Ashe served as vocations director from the late 1980s.
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Martin Ashe was moderator and then pastoral director of Corpus Christi College Seminary.
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Martin Ashe was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne by Pope Francis on 14 May 2021 and was given the titular see of Muteci, in Algeria.
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Martin Ashe was consecrated by Archbishop Peter Comensoli on 31 July 2021 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne along with Anthony Ireland.