Generational change has arrived in the Catholic Church in Australia, with the appointment of two new Sydney bishops.
Pope Francis last night -announced Brisbane priest Monsignor Anthony Randazzo, 49, and New Zealand-born Sydney priest Father Richard Umbers, 45, would be auxiliary bishops to Archbishop Anthony Fisher in Sydney. 
Monsignor Randazzo, who worked for Pope Benedict XVI at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, served as rector of Queensland's Holy Spirit Seminary from 2009 to 2015, lifting student numbers from nine to 32 and overseeing the ordination of 27 priests and five deacons.
Father Umbers qualified in economics and management in New Zealand and Sydney and was an economist before being called to the priesthood and ordained in 2002. He is the first Opus Dei priest appointed a bishop in Australia and is chaplain of Warrane College at the University of NSW. He has also lectured at the University of Notre Dame.
As a student in Rome in the late 1990s Father Umbers met and -observed Pope John Paul II while working as a translator at Vatican synods.
Archbishop Fisher said the new appointees would bring intelligence, energy and pastoral skills to the church in Sydney and to Australia's "bench of bishops".
Father Umbers, who studied in Spain as well as Rome, has a doctorate in philosophy. Monsignor Randazzo qualified in canon law at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University and recently studied scripture in Jerusalem.
Monsignor Randazzo, whose background is Scottish and Italian, was born in Sydney and spent his early life in Bankstown in the city's west.
He attended school on the Gold Coast, where his father ran a farm and fruit shops.Father Umbers wants to step up the use of social media in evangelising young people.