Daniel Murphy (bishop)
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Ordination | by St Patrick's College, Maynooth (Ireland)[1] | 8 February 1838
Daniel Murphy (15 June 1815 – 29 December 1907) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, Tasmania.[2]
Life and career
Murphy was born in Belmont, County Cork, Ireland, the son of Michael Murphy and his wife Mary, née McSweeney.[2]
Murphy was educated at
In consequence of ill health, Pope Pius IX transferred him from India to Tasmania in 1865, appointing him Bishop of Hobart in succession to Robert Willson.[3] Murphy arrived in Hobart in April 1866. He attended the First Vatican Council in 1869, and paid another visit to Rome from Hobart in 1882. In 1888, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of his priesthood, Hobart was erected into an archbishopric, and he became the first Metropolitan. Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran invested him with the pallium on 12 May 1889,[3] and Murphy gave Moran an antique parchment scroll of the Book of Esther that he had purchased during a visit to the Holy Land. The scroll is currently held by the Veech Library at the Catholic Institute of Sydney.[4]
Murphy was also an astronomer, submitting a paper on solar phenomena and their effects to the Australasian Science Association Congress in Hobart in 1892.[2] Murphy died in
References
- ^ Anthony Alan LeClerc, The Episcopate of Daniel Murphy - First Archbishop of Hobart, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1994.[1]
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "Esther parchment". Catholic Institute of Sydney.