Roman Catholic Clerical Changes, Evening News, Sydney, 13 February 1878, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107944745:

The following changes have recently been made:—[...] Rev. W. Collinridge, appointed to St. Mary's; [...].

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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 66:

Collingridge, Charles Francis Peter, English
Family Friend of Archbishop Vaughan
This well-known pre-Reformation family came from England to Ryde, Sydney, in 1878. William Augustine Aloysius and his wife, Louise Josephine (nee Maguire) were the parents of five children. Charles Francis Peter was the eldest, born to them in Gottington on 9 December 1844. Another son, Alfred Joseph Louis, studied to become a Jesuit, became a Papal Zouave and died from battle wounds in the fight against Garibaldi, October 1867. The third child, George Alphonse, was also a Papal Zouave and arrived in Australia in 1879. His granddaughter, Mrs Ruth Lynch of Lane Cove, is at present writing his life story. The remaining two in the family, Mary Josephine and Arthur Oscar, also came to Australia. Charles was probably ordained in England and in January 1877 sailed for Australia to serve in Sydney, being given posts in turn at St. Mary's, at Rose Bay Convent as a chaplain, at Darlinghurst. In the late eighties he transferred to the Lismore Diocese and served at Bodalla and Maclean. At this stage he deemed he had a vocation to become a Jesuit and accordingly spent some months at Sevenhill, S.A. The stay was brief and hence a Directory tracing shows he was back in the Lismore Diocese, at Rockmouth, 1889. He can be regarded as one of the first - if not the first - to enlist as a Military Chaplain, serving in the Soudan. Nothing is known of his service record, but after it was completed he returned to England and joined the Westminster Diocese. Apparently while serving in Lismore he had been engaged in writing a book, which was published in London on the year of his departure for service in the Soudan, 1889. The title of the book was "The Civil Principality of the Vicar of Christ in the Holy Scriptures". He was the author of other books as well. There is no doubt C.F.P. was a man of accomplishment. When stationed at Darlinghurst in 1884 he received into the Church a student for the Anglican ministry, Harold Tate, who was later ordained a priest in England in 1884. The man of accomplishment died in London on 26 July 1907 at the age of 63. The writer is indebted to Fr. John Hosie SM and Sister Gregory OSB, Pennant Hills, for correcting errors made in F.P. (as quoted above) that Father Collingridge was a Marist and later a Benedictine. There is no evidence that he tried to join either of these Orders.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 8)
Ref.: Mrs Mary Collingridge, Hunters Hill, & Mrs Ruth Lynch, Lane Cove.

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Denis M. Long, Pioneer and Early Priests, Archdiocese of Brisbane, Deceased or retired by 1929, 2021, p 80:
Francis Peter Collingridge

The name, Collingridge C F P, appears on the small memorial card produced in 1930, listing deceased priests who have served in the Archdiocese of Brisbane. While Pugh's Almanac never lists him among the Brisbane clergy, some priest(s) at the [time] must have known of his presence in the diocese.

Charles was born to William and Louise (nee Maguire) Collingridge at Gottington, Oxfordshire in England on 9 December 1844. He was ordained about 1868. His family, who were friends of Archbishop Vaughan who became Archbishop of Sydney in 1877, migrated to Sydney about this time.(1) After six years in the diocese of Westminster, Fr Charles sailed for Australia on 31 January 1877, arriving in Sydney in June 1877. He was in Brisbane in 1877, leaving for Sydney on 20 September 1877. He then joined the Jesuit Novitiate at Sevenhill, South Australia, but left in August 1880, deciding he had no vocation to the Jesuits.(2)

He was a noted lecturer. His clashes with the Protestants were reported in the Protestant Standard. He was an ardent temperance lecturer.(3) Was this why he was in Brisbane?

Serving as an assistant priest at St Mary's Cathedral, on 21 May 1882 he was sub-deacon at the High Mass for the consecration of Dr Cani, first bishop of Rockhampton.(4) He served as chaplain to the Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay.

On Tuesday 3 March 1885, serving as an army chaplain, he accompanied the Australian contingent of troops going to the Sudan.(5) He suffered from neuralgia on the trip but continued to minister to the soldiers.(6)

He was back in Sydney by August of that year. In March of the following year he gave a lecture in Bateman's Bay, on his way to take charge of the church at Bodalla, on the south coast of NSW.(7) In April 1887 he left Bodalla to join the Marist Fathers at Villa Maria, Sydney. He said:

It might seem strange to some that he should have applied to the Archbishop to allow him to resign this mission at Bodalla, but the object he had now in view had been before his mind for many years.(8)

He did not join the Marists but served at MacLean in Lismore diocese. He left MacLean in 1889 and returned to England where he re-joined the Westminster diocese.(9)

He died in London on 26 July 1907. The Sydney press reported in 1910:

Members of the NSW Contingent only a few days ago learned of the death of Father Collingridge, one of two chaplains with the expedition, although it occurred nearly three years ago in England. He was the brother of the late Mr Arthur Collingridge, the artist, and he was a chaplain to the forces at Chelsea at the time of his death. He was 61 years of age, and had been in the Old Country during the last 18 years.(10)

Footnotes
1. Footprints, Article by Mrs Mary Collingridge, Melbourne Oct 1975 Vol 2 No 8, p. 26.
2. Footprints, Letter from Mrs Ruth Lynch, his great-niece, Melbourne, Aug 1979, Vol 3 No 9, p. 16.
3. Sydney Morning Herald, 28 Jun 1878, p. 5.
4. Freeman's Journal, 27 May 1882, p. 15.
5. Evening News, Sydney, 7 Mar 1885, p. 5.
6. Freeman's Journal, 14 Mar 1885, p. 18.
7. Newcastle Morning Herald, 18 Mar 18 1886, p. 8.
8. Freeman's Journal, 30 Apr 1887, p. 18.
9. Footprints, Letter from Mrs Ruth Lynch, his great-niece, Melbourne August 1979, Vol 3 No 9, p. 16.
10. Evening News, Sydney, 11 March 1910, p. 7.

Reproduced by permission of Fr Denis Long.