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Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran (
16 September 1830 –
16 August 1911) was the third
Archbishop of Sydney.
An Irishman born at
Leighlinbridge,
County Carlow,
Ireland, he died an Australian at
Manly,
Sydney. His mother and father both dead by the time he was 11 years old, he'd left
Ireland in 1842 (at the age of 12) to pursue studies for the priesthood at the
minor seminary and then major
seminary in Rome at the
Irish College.
He was so intellectually bright he gained his doctorate by
acclamation. Among the principal objectors was Cardinal Joachim Pecci, future
Pope Leo XIII, who was impressed by the genius of the Irish student.
Moran was appointed vice-rector at the
Irish College, and also took the chair of Hebrew at
Propaganda Fide. He was also some-time vice-rector of the
Scots College. In 1866 Monsignor Moran was appointed secretary to his mother's half-brother
Cardinal Cullen. Moran was also appointed professor of Scripture at Clonliffe College. He founded the "Irish Ecclesiastical Record" (on which he later modelled the "Australasian Catholic Record").
In 1869 he accompanied
Cardinal Cullen to the
First Vatican Council, a council also attended by Melbourne's then first Archbishop
James Alipius Goold. While in Rome and Ireland he was very active politically in opposing English Catholic Benedictine plans for monastic foundations undergirding the Catholic church of Australia.
He was personally chosen and promoted by
Pope Leo XIII to head the Archdiocese of Sydney — a clear policy departure from the previous English
Benedictine incumbents (Polding, Vaughan) who were experiencing tension leading the predominantly Irish-Australian Catholics. Moran was appointed to Australia on the
25 January 1884 and arrived on
8 September 1884. He was created
Cardinal-Priest on
27 July 1885 of the title of St Susanna. The new Irish-Australian
Cardinal made it his business to make his presence and leadership felt.
In the year 1886 it's estimated he travelled 2500 miles over land and sea, visiting all the dioceses of
New Zealand. In 1887 he travelled 6000 miles to consecrate fellow Irishman Dr. (
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Matthew Gibney at Perth. He also travelled to
Ballarat,
Bathurst,
Bendigo,
Hobart,
Goulburn,
Lismore,
Melbourne, and
Rockhampton for the consecration of their cathedrals.
Over his episcopate, he consecrated fourteen bishops (he was the principal consecrator of
William Joseph Walsh,
Michael Verdon,
Patrick Vincent Dwyer,
Armand Olier and also assisted in consecrating
Patrick Clune, among others). He ordained nearly five hundred priests, dedicated more than five thousand churches, and professed more than five thousand nuns. He made five journeys to Rome on Church business between 1885 and 1903.
In 1900-01, his leadership survived a crisis when his personal secretary, Denis O'Haran, was named as co-respondent in the divorce case of the cricketer
Arthur Coningham. Moran vigorously defended O'Haran and a jury found in his favour.
After his death in 1911, aged 80, a quarter of a million people (the largest crowd ever to gather in Australia until that date) witnessed his funeral procession through the centre of Sydney. He is buried in
St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.
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