People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

8 June, 1941
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Death

10 January, 2023 (aged 81)
Rome, Italy

Cause of Death

heart disease

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Catholic

Education

• Loreto College (Ballarat, Vic)
• St Patrick's College (Ballarat, Vic)
• Monash University
• Corpus Christi College (Werribee, Vic)
• Pontifical Urbaniana University (Rome, Italy)
• Oxford University

Occupation or Descriptor

• Catholic archbishop
• Catholic bishop
• Catholic cardinal
• Catholic priest
• prisoner

Awards

• Centenary Medal
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX (Holy See)
• Companion of the Order of Australia

Key Events

• Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-17)

Key Organisations

• Richmond Football Club (Vic)

Key Places

• Barwon Prison (Vic)

Political Activism

• republican