Patrick Francis Moran (1830 - 1911)

Born 16 Sep 1830 in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland

Ancestors

Died 16 Aug 1911 at age 80 in Manly, Australia

Biography

Patrick Moran was born in Ireland.

Patrick was a Roman Catholic.

Patrick Moran is Notable.

Patrick Francis Moran born on 16 September 1830 at Leighlinbridge, Carlow, Ireland, youngest of five children of Patrick Moran, businessman, and his wife Alicia, née Cullen and formerly Murphy. For both parents, it was their second marriage. ^[1]

Roman Catholic Cardinal. Third Archbishop of Sydney. A native of Leighlinbridge, near Kildare, in the Irish county of Carlow, he was educated and attended seminary at the Irish College, in Rome, city where he attended also the Urbanian Athenaeum of Propaganda Fide, and was ordained priest on March 19, 1853. In Rome, he worked at the Irish College, first as teacher, from 1853 to 1856, then as its vice-rector, from 1856 to 1866. He was also professor of Hebrew in the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum of Propaganda Fide and vice-rector of the Scottish College. He returned to Ireland in 1866 as secretary of his uncle, Cardinal Paul Cullen, archbishop of Dublin. He served in that post from 1866 to 1872, while being professor of Scripture, at Clonliffe College. He is the founder of the "Irish Ecclesiastical Record". He accompanied Cardinal Cullen to the Vatican Council, in 1869 and 1870. On December 22, 1871, he was elected titular bishop of Olba and appointed coadjutor of Ossory. He was consecrated, on March 5, 1872, in Dublin, by his uncle. He succeeded to the see of Ossory, on August 11, 1872. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Sydney, in Australia, on March 14, 1884. He travelled thousands of miles visiting the churches and dioceses of his metropolitan province. Pope Leo XIII created him cardinal in the consistory of July 27, 1885 : the first cardinal of Australia. He excused himself from participating in the conclave of 1903 due to the great distance to Rome. He passed away in Manly.

His mother died when he was fourteen months old, his father when he was 11, and three siblings died young. The Cullens of Craan, Carlow, provided a home for him until, in 1842, he was placed in the care of his mother's half-brother (Cardinal) Paul Cullen, rector of the Irish College, Rome.

Sources

1. ↑ Patrick Francis Moran, by John Molony https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a5960

• Patrick Francis Moran, by A. E. Cahill in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moran-patrick-francis-7648

• Hugh Cullen of Prospect, Co Kildare http://members.bex.net/jtcullen515/HughCull.htm

• https://www.sydneycatholic.org/past-bishops/#patrick-moran

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8311855/patrick-francis-moran

• https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108182670?searchTerm=hennessy%20rosebank%20college#

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q2588733, en:Wikipedia