Anthony Fisher
Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop (born 1960)
Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher OP (born 10 March 1960) is an Australian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Sydney and as the Catholic Primate of Australia since 2014. He previously served as Bishop of Parramatta from 2010 to 2014 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Sydney from 2003 to 2010. He is a member of the Dominican Order.
Early life and education
Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher was born the eldest of five children in Crows Nest, Sydney, to Gloria Maguregui, whose father was of Spanish Basque origin and whose mother was half Italian and half Romanian – she migrated with her family to Australia from Asia in the 1950s – and Colin Fisher, a pharmacist from Ashfield with Anglo-Irish roots. He was baptised at St Therese's Church in Lakemba and attended the parish school in 1965 and 1966. The Fisher family lived in Belmore, Canterbury and Wiley Park before moving to Longueville and Manly.
Fisher attended St Michael's Primary School in Lane Cove, Holy Cross College Ryde and Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, where he was dux in 1977. He studied at the University of Sydney for six years, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in history with first-class honours and a Bachelor of Laws. He then practised law at the commercial law firm Clayton Utz where he drafted contracts for the redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Building. He took leave from his job as a lawyer to go backpacking around Europe to discern his vocation.
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