“Whenever the correct governance of a diocese requires it, the diocesan bishop can also appoint one or more episcopal vicars, namely, those who in a specific part of the diocese or in a certain type of affairs or over the faithful of a specific rite or over certain groups of persons possess the same ordinary power which a vicar general has by universal law, according to the norms of the following canons.”
(Canon 476)

The Episcopal Vicar for Administration is Monsignor Austin Bulfin.

Monsignor Bulfin’s principal role is in relation to the buildings and properties of the diocese.  He oversees all works to diocesan properties, liaising with parish priests who want to do such works and then, once the work has been approved by the Diocesan Board of Administration, with architects and surveyors before the project beings and throughout the whole process.