auxiliary bishop
Which position did Mark Coleridge hold in May 2006?
Mark Coleridge Mark Benedict Coleridge ( born 25 September 1948 ) is an Australian Catholic bishop . Since 11 May 2012 he has served as the seventh Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane . He previously served as the Archbishop of Canberra–Goulburn ( 2006–12 ) and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne ( 2002–06 ) . Early life . Mark Coleridge was born in Melbourne , Victoria . The third of five siblings born to Bernard and Marjorie ( née Harvey ) Coleridge , he was educated at Saint Josephs School , Tranmere , South Australia , Rostrevor College , Adelaide , and St Kevins College , Toorak . Contemplating a career in the Australian diplomatic service , he graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in French . As a Melbourne seminarian , he entered Corpus Christi College , then in Werribee and later in Glen Waverley and Clayton . On 18 May 1974 , Coleridge was ordained a priest at St Patricks Cathedral , Melbourne , by Bishop John A . Kelly , an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne . He worked as a parish priest there until moving to Rome where he earned a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Biblicum in 1984 and a Doctorate in Sacred Scripture with dissertation on the Infancy Narrative in Lukes Gospel in April 1992 . He returned to Melbourne in 1992 , where he spent three years at several theology appointments . After some time in Rome devoted to doctoral studies and another stint in Melbourne , in 1997 he was appointed to a position in the Roman Curia at the Secretariat of State , where he spent four years . Episcopate . On 3 May 2002 , Pope John Paul II appointed Coleridge as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne . On 19 June 2006 , Pope Benedict XVI named him as Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn . On 29 December 2011 he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for a five-year renewable term . On 2 April 2012 , Pope Benedict XVI named him Metropolitan Archbishop of Brisbane and he was installed on 11 May 2012 . As of 2015 he was a member of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference , Coleridge serves on that bodys permanent committee , chairs its Commission for Evangelisation , and is a member of its Commission for Church Ministry . The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference elected Coleridge one of its two delegates to the Synod on the Family in Rome in October 2015 . There he served as the relator ( reporting secretary ) for one of the four English-language working groups . In November 2017 , Coleridge was elected by Australias bishops to head their commission that will organize a plenary council of the Church in Australia in 2020 . On 4 May 2018 he was elected to a two-year term as president of the Bishops Conference . Opposition to same-sex marriage . In 2017 , during the national postal survey on same-sex marriage , Coleridge said he personally believed that the love shared by a same-sex couple could only ever be simply the love of friends . He noted that children were not permitted to marry their parents , nor siblings permitted to marry one another , though he agreed that the cases of same-sex couples and close relatives were different . He said : That is not to say that [ same-sex couples ] are not equal . Its simply saying that they are not the same and that they dont qualify for what we call marriage .