AUSTRALIA
The Australian

TESS LIVINGSTONE THE AUSTRALIAN SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

POPE Francis last night promoted the Bishop of Parramatta, ­Anthony Fisher, 54, as the new Archbishop of Sydney to replace Cardinal George Pell.

Bishop Fisher, a member of the Dominican Order of Preachers, is the first religious order priest appointed to Australia’s most senior church job since ­English Benedictine Roger Bede Vaughan in 1877.

Bishop Fisher, a qualified lawyer with a doctorate in Bioethics from Oxford University, attended St Ignatius College, Riverview, in Sydney where he was dux. He grew up in Lakemba in western Sydney when it was “an ordinary working class Anglo suburb”. His father, Colin Fisher, who turned 80 earlier this year, ran a pharmacy in the suburb and saw it change over the years to become a stronghold for Vietnamese migrants and later the Muslim community. His mother, Gloria Fisher, has a Spanish background and…