Philip Edward Wilson | |
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| Archbishop of Adelaide | |
| Archdiocese | Adelaide |
| Appointed | 3 December 2001 |
| Term ended | 30 July 2018 |
| Predecessor | Leonard Faulkner |
| Successor | Patrick O'Regan |
| Previous post(s) |
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| Orders | |
| Ordination | 23 August 1975 by Edward Bede Clancy |
| Consecration | 10 July 1996 by Edward Bede Clancy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 October 1950 |
| Died | 17 January 2021 (aged 70) Adelaide, South Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | John and Joan Wilson |
| Alma mater | |
| Styles of Philip Wilson | |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Grace |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
Philip Edward Wilson (2 October 1950 – 17 January 2021) was an Australian Roman Catholic prelate who was the eighth Archbishop of Adelaide from 2001 to 2018. He was President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference from 2006 to 2010. From 1996 to 2001 Wilson was bishop of the Diocese of Wollongong, where he gained a reputation as a "healing bishop" for handling child-abuse scandals.[1]
In 2018 Wilson was at first convicted, but then acquitted on appeal, of failing to report in 2004 allegations of child sexual abuse against another priest when he was an assistant parish priest in East Maitland, New South Wales in 1976.[2] After the conviction but before the acquittal, he resigned as archbishop and commenced serving his sentence under home detention.[2] In September 2019 the fourth previously unreleased volume of the 2014 Special Commission of Enquiry into allegations of cover-up of sexual abuse claims in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle commissioned by Margaret Cuneen SC found that Archbishop Wilson was an "unsatisfactory and unimpressive witness" and that he gave evidence the commissioners considered to be "untruthful", "self serving and implausible".