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Prayer for April 27th

LORD CHRIST, BRING INTO YOUR KINGDOM, SACERDOTAL SERVANTS WHO NEVER FLINCHED IN OBEYING YOUR WILL.

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

This is an historical record of the death of clergy in Australia for the 27th of April:

• 2013
  Most Rev Joseph Peter O'Connell DD DCL   Read more

  Born 10/12/1931; Ordained 28/07/1957 - Archdiocese of Melbourne.
  
  Bishop Joseph O'Connell, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne died at Caritas Christi Hospice, Kew. In 1949 Bishop O'Connell commenced studies for teaching, but at the beginning of 1950 he entered Corpus Christi College Werribee to study for the priesthood and was ordained by Archbishop Justin Simonds in St Patrick's Cathedral on 28 July 1957.
  
  Bishop O'Connell obtained a doctorate in Canon Law in July 1961 from the Gregorian University, and lived at St Peter's College in Rome while studying. He worked in the parishes of West Melbourne and Yarraville, combining this with work in the Archdiocesan Tribunal, becoming Vice Officialis on 13 November 1968.
  
  He was named Auxiliary bishop by Pope Paul VI on 12 February 1976, being consecrated by Archbishop Frank Little on 31 March of that year.
  
  Archbishop Denis Hart, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said that Bishop O'Connell's contribution to Canon Law and a care for migrants will be among the things he will be remembered for.
  
  His contribution to jurisprudence and tribunal practice has long been esteemed. As Episcopal Vicar for Religious from 17 March 1969 he provided much assistance. Bishops, priests and people will remember his wise, mature counsel, his common sense and his love of migrants, and the pastoral care he gave to the people of the Archdiocese, where he was loved for his ready engagement with all. The Bishops will especially remember his close involvement with the committees for Canon Law and the Bishops Committee for Justice and Peace, his involvement with many projects relating to the functioning of Conference and many other activities. He bore significant ill-health with great fortitude and patience, and is regarded as a great luminary by us all. With similar generosity he gave of his great abilities to assist in the revision of the Code of Canon Law. He recently confided in me his great desire simply to bring people closer to God and to serve them. May his gifted and generous soul rest in the peace which he always sought to bring to others.'
  
  The Pontifical Requiem Mass for Bishop Joe O'Connell was celebrated at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.
  
  May he rest in peace.
• 1883
  Rev John Aloysius Norbert Quirk OSB  Sydney, etc
• 1911
  Rev Thomas Vincent Hayes  Goodna, etc, Qld
• 1917
  Rev John? Washington  Lismore dioc, NSW
• 1938
  Rev Edmund Phelan  Adelaide dioc, SA; New Norcia, WA
• 1939
  Rev Thomas Fay SJ  Adelaide, etc
• 1940
  Rev Francis Joseph McSweeney  Valley, etc, Qld
• 1942
  Rev Charles P James  Adelaide
• 1956
  Rev Mgr James H Hyland  Warracknabeal, Bungaree, Swan Hill, etc, Vic
• 1970
  Rev Mgr James Denis Kelly  Brisbane dioc
• 1979
  Rev Edward Fahey  Armidale dioc, NSW
• 1988
  Rev Emmanuel Stettmayer SDB  Glenorchy, Tas, etc
• 1989
  Rev Robert Duggan CM  Eastwood, NSW, Adelaide, SA
• 2002
  Rev John Gerald Butz  Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn, ACT

Clergy who died in April, exact date of death unknown:

• Rev Edward Augustine O'Dwyer OSA   Sandhurst dioc, Vic

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