LONDON (ENGLAND)
Australian Associated Press via The Guardian
June 3, 2018
Gregory O’Kelly named the special administrator of Adelaide following Philip Wilson’s conviction
Pope Francis has appointed Gregory O’Kelly, the bishop of Port Pirie, the special administrator of Adelaide following the conviction of Archbishop Philip Wilson for covering up child sex crimes during the 1970s.
O’Kelly, who will remain the bishop of Port Pirie, north of Adelaide, assumes administrative and executive authority in the archdiocese until any future decision of the Pope, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a statement.
Wilson was found guilty at Newcastle local court on 22 May of failing to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys by paedophile priest James Fletcher in the New South Wales Hunter region.
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