1978 ||align="right" | ||Died in office |- |align="center"| ||Edward Bede Clancy † ||align="center" | 24 November 1978 ||align="center" | 12 February 1983 ||align="right" | ||Translated as Archbishop of Sydney |- |align="center"| ||Francis Carroll ||align="center" | 25 June 1983 ||align="center" | 19 June 2006 ||align="right" | ||Retired and appointed Archbishop Emeritus of Canberra and Goulburn |- |align="center"| ||Mark Coleridge ||align="center" | 19 June 2006 ||align="center" | 2 April 2012 ||align="right" | ||Translated as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane |- |align="center"| ||Christopher Prowse ||align="center" | 19 November 2013 ||align="center" | present ||align="right" | ||incumbent |} Edward Bede Clancy became Cardinal in 1988. Coadjutor bishop John Gallagher † (1895-1900) Auxiliary bishops Guilford Clyde Young † (1948-1954), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Hobart John Neil Cullinane † (1959-1967), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne John Aloysius Morgan † (1969-1985) Patrick Dougherty † (1976-1983), appointed Bishop of Bathurst Patrick Percival Power (1986-2012) Other priests of this diocese who became bishops John Dunne † , appointed Bishop of Wilcannia in 1887 Patrick Joseph Clune † (priest here, 1886-1894), appointed Bishop of Perth in 1910 Joseph Wilfred Dwyer † , appointed Bishop of Wagga Wagga in 1918 Cathedral St Christopher's was built as the first parish church in Canberra by the first priest, Father Patrick Haydon, although the beginnings of Catholic life in the district go back to 1862 when the Diocese of Goulburn was erected. The parish was originally part of St Gregory's Parish, Queanbeyan, until 1912. Following the erection of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga in 1918, the parish was transferred to the Diocese of Goulburn. A foundation stone was laid by Archbishop Kelly in 1927 for a church and school. The following year St Christopher's became an independent parish with the first classes taught in the adjacent school, and the open day attended by the Prime Minister, Bruce. In 1930 a large cathedral was proposed for the site behind Regatta Point, but economic circumstances and World War II made this impractical. A foundation stone for the cathedral was laid in 1938 by Archbishop of Sydney Gilroy in a ceremony which included Joseph Lyons and James Scullin. The choice of St Christopher as patron saint was selected on the basis that Canberra would be a place to which many travellers would come. In the presence of Robert Menzies, the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Panico, opened the parish church in 1939. The first ordination in St