ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH

New Zealand Tablet, 18 September 1913, Page 27

ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH

A cablegram from Rome reached Melbourne on September 2 conveying the news that his Holiness the Pope had raised Perth to the dignity of an archbishopric, .and appointed the present Bishop, Dr. Clune, Archbishop of the new see. His Grace, who is at present in Ireland, attended the Eucharistic Congress at Malta a few months ago, and presided over many of the conferences of the English-speaking sections. Arriving in Rome he had the privilege of the first audience granted by the Holy Father after his illness to a visiting prelate. The new Archbishop was born on January 6, 1864. His birthplace was Aughrin, Ruan, near Ennis, County Clare. He entered All Hallows’ Foreign Mission College, Dublin, at the age of seventeen, and took first place in his class at once. He was a prize-man all through his course. The young levite was ordained on June 24, 1886, and came to Australia by the Garonne. He labored in the Goulburn diocese as secular priest till 1893, when he went to Ireland to join the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. He was professed on September 30, 1894, and returned to Australia about the time the Perth house of the Order was founded. He gave missions throughout Western Australia, and founded the house of Mt. St. Gerard, Oriental Bay, Wellington. His Grace’s brother (the Very Rev. Father Francis Clune, C.P.) is Superior of the Passionist Retreat, Marrickville, Sydney. He was appointed rector of Perth Redemptorist House about four years ago, and was consecrated Bishop of Perth in St. Patrick’s Day, 1911, the late Cardinal Moran being the consecrating prelate.