Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On 10 May 1887 it was promoted as the Archdiocese of Adelaide, while losing territory to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Augusta. It had a papal visit from Pope John Paul II in November 1986. On 19 March 2020, Patrick O'Regan was announced by Pope Francis to be the 12th Archbishop of Adelaide. [2]
It began in July 1889 as a weekly magazine published in Adelaide, South Australia, for the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, and remained a weekly for most of its history. Its banner was subtitled A weekly record of Catholic, Irish and General Intelligence , and later Organ of the Catholic Church in South Australia .
The Diocese of Port Pirie is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Australia.It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Adelaide, erected in 1887 covering the Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, Flinders Ranges, Nullarbor Plain, and Mid and Far North regions of South Australia, Australia.
Leonard Anthony Faulkner (5 December 1926 – 6 May 2018) was an Australian Catholic clergyman and the seventh [1] Archbishop of Adelaide. Born in rural South Australia, Faulkner served as an Adelaide parish priest and Bishop of Townsville before being appointed Archbishop of Adelaide in 1985. Upon retiring in 2001, he became Archbishop ...
The archdiocese he inherited was burdened with substantial debt, again left over from the old Diocese of Adelaide. Through the sale of church assets and a fundraising campaign, O'Reily was able to eliminate most of the Archdiocese's liabilities while still investing in church infrastructure.
Currently there are 33 Catholic dioceses in Australia, consist of 5 metropolitan archdioceses, 21 suffragan dioceses, 2 non-metropolitan archdioceses, and 5 Eastern Rite dioceses.
Matthew Beovich was consecrated and installed as Archbishop of Adelaide in St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Adelaide, on 7 April 1940, [19] becoming the Archdiocese's first Australian-born bishop. [20] [21] The cathedral was crowded for the consecration, with loudspeakers so those who could not fit inside could still hear the proceedings. [19]
Reynolds became the first Archbishop of Adelaide when the see was elevated to an archdiocese on 10 May 1887. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Under his guidance, The Southern Cross newspaper was started in 1889. He died in office on 12 June 1893, aged 58.