THE NEW CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY.
The following particulars with reference to the newly appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney are taken from “ Men of the Time ” Moran, the Right Rev. Patrick Francis, D.D., Bishop of Ossory, born at Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, September 16th, 1830; was educated at the Irish College of St. Agatha, Rome. He was appointed Vice-Pre-sident of the College in 1856, and Professor of Hebrew in the College of the Propaganda, Rome. Returning to Ireland in 1866, he was Private Secretary to his Eminence Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin; was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop Ossory on March sth, 1872, and succeeded, a few months later, to that See. Dr. Moran has laboured a great deal to promote the study of Irish history and antiquities. Amongst other works, he has published :—“ Memoir of the Most Rev. Oliver Plunkett,” 1861; “Essays on the Origin, &c., of the Early Irish Church,” 1864; “History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin,” 1864; “ Historial Sketch of the Persecutions, &c., under Cromwell and the Puritans,” 1865; “Acts S. Brendani,” 1872; “ Mouasticou Hiberuicum,” 1873 • “ Spicilegium Ossoriense, being a collection of documents to illustrate the history of the Irish Church from the Reformation to the year 1800,” 1874.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2318, 1 February 1884, Page 2
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