3 November 1995 ||align="right" | || Retired and appointed Bishop Emeritus of Maitland-Newcastle |- |} The following individuals have been elected as Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle: {| class="wikitable" !Order !Name !Date installed ! !Term of office !Reason for term end |- |align="center"| || ||align="center" | ||align="center" | ||align="right"| ||Following a 2009 request by Malone for early retirement due to the impact of the sex abuse scandal, which was rejected by the Vatican, Malone resigned in 2011 |- |align="center"| ||William Wright ||align="center" |4 April 2011 ||align="center" |13 November 2021||align="right"| || Died while in office |- |align="center"| ||Michael Kennedy ||align="center" |2 February 2023 ||align="center" | ||align="right"| || |- |} Coadjutor bishops Patrick Vincent Dwyer (1897-1909) Edmund John Aloysius Gleeson, C.SS.R. (1929-1931) John Thomas Toohey (1948-1956) Michael John Malone (1994-1995) Other priests of the diocese who became bishops Ernest Victor Tweedy, appointed Archbishop of Hobart in 1942 Philip Edward Wilson, appointed Bishop of Wollongong in 1996 Brian Gregory Mascord, appointed Bishop of Wollongong in 2017 Cathedral Sacred Heart Cathedral in Hamilton acts as both the Hamilton parish church and the cathedral for the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle. The Sacred Heart Cathedral building was opened in 1930 as the parish church of Hamilton and was consecrated by Bishop Edmund Gleeson in 1941, before becoming Sacred Heart Cathedral on 16 July 1995. The Sacred Heart Church's foundations were dug with the physical aid of parishioners. The church was built virtually brick by brick on the dream of Monsignor Victor Francis Peters and through the generosity of parishioners who, in the midst of the Great Depression, bought bricks for an average of twopence each. A donation of ten pounds was the norm and, in total, 700,000 bricks were used. Monsignor Peters was influenced by the architecture of the cathedral in Thurles in Ireland; the cathedral church of Philadelphia in the US and the brick work in front of the Pisa church in Italy. The foundation stone was laid on 23 September 1928. The first brick was laid on 1 February 1929 and the last brick just ten months later on 1 December 1929. Sixty years later, the earthquake of 1989 caused considerable damage particularly to the belltower. The original concrete dome was replaced by one of copper and the original dome now stands as a memorial to those who lost their lives in the earthquake. Parishes The following parishes are situated within the diocese: All Saints