Anthony Randazzo

Anthony Randazzo (born 7 October 1966) is an Australian Catholic prelate who is the prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts. From 2019 to 2026, he was the bishop ordinary of the Diocese of Broken Bay in New South Wales. Between 2023 and 2026 he was also apostolic administrator of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. He was an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney from 2016 to 2019. Anthony Randazzo was born on 7 October 1966 in Sydney, the only son and the third of four children born to Sydney-born Colin Randazzo and his wife Caterina Di Losa from Lipari, Italy. His parents worked as fruiterers at their family business in Bankstown. In 1967 they moved to Coolangatta on the Gold Coast. Randazzo attended Saint Augustine's School in Coolangatta in 1972/73 and then two schools in Southport, Guardian Angels School from 1973 to 1975 and Aquinas College from 1976 to 1983. His first jobs were working in the hospitality industry and teaching music in a Catholic primary school. Randazzo entered Pius XII Seminary, Banyo, in 1985 and earned his Bachelor of Theology degree in 1991.