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Prayer for March 1st

ALL PRAISE TO YOU, OUR GOD, FOR STERLING PASTORS WHO GAVE AN EXAMPLE THAT THEIR PEOPLE COULD FOLLOW.

List of Deceased Clergy, only year of death known
List of Deceased Clergy, date of death unknown

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This is an historical record of the death of clergy in Australia for the 1st of March:
  • 2010
    Rev John Phelan  Born 09/07/1930; Ordained 06/06/1954; Diocese of Sale.
  • 1872
    Bishop Laurence Bonaventure Patrick Sheil OFM  Adelaide
  • 1879
    Rev Edward O'Dwyer  Bathurst dioc, NSW
  • 1895
    Rev John Eugene Gourbellion OSB  Sydney; Ballarat, Vic
  • 1897
    Rev Thomas Caldwell OSB  Hobart, Ross, Tas; Adelaide
  • 1910
    Rev Sigismund Karlinger SJ  Sevenhill, Jamestown, etc, SA
  • 1924
    Rev Denis (Finbar) O'Connor OCarm  Gawler, SA
  • 1930
    Rev Robert O'Dempsey SJ  Sydney, etc
  • 1942
    Rev Patrick Finnerty  Esk, etc, Qld
  • 1945
    Archbishop Michael Sheehan  Sydney
  • 1977
    Rev Bernard Geoghegan  Melbourne dioc
  • 1979
    Rev Frederick James Fry  MacLean, Kempsey, Grafton, Murwillumbah, Kyogle, Dorrigo, South. Grafton etc, NSW
  • 1982
    Rev William Joseph Hayes  Melbourne dioc
  • 1982
    Rev Richard Walter O'Donovan  Ashby, Wagga, Junee, Leeton, Albury, Holbrook, Berrigan, etc, NSW
  • 1983
    Rev Thomas Joseph Maloney  Balaklava, Kapunda, Adelaide, etc, SA
  • 1988
    Rev Thomas Christopher Mulkerrin SSC  Adelaide, etc
  • 1988
    Rev Patrick Talty CSsR  Perth, WA; Newcastle, NSW.
  • 1999
    Rev Francis Scanlon  Biggenden, Woodford, East Brisbane, Newmarket, Qld
  • 2001
    Rev James (Jim) McLaren  Sydney dioc
  • 2004
    Rev Peter D Shiel  St. Ives, Sydney and Broken Bay dioc, NSW
  • 2008
    Rev Barry Leonard SJ  
  • 2008
    Rev John Flynn  Born 11/02/1932; Ordained 30/06/1956.
  • 2007
    Rev Boniface Cotter  
Clergy who died in March, exact date of death unknown:
  • Rev John Carter   Sandhurst dioc, Vic
  • 1872Rev Peter Bruno Powell   St. Leonards, Penrith, etc, NSW; Penola, Mt. Gambier, Adelaide dioc, SA; Perth, Albany, WA; Melbourne, Vic
  • 1886Rev Martin Meagher   Crookwell, etc, NSW; Hobart dioc
  • 1889Rev Francis? Costello   Sydney
  • 1906Rev Michael Farrelly   Sandhurst dioc, Vic

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