Edward Bede Clancy
Edward Bede Cardinal Clancy AC (born December 13, 1923 in Lithgow , New South Wales , † August 3, 2014 in Randwick ) was Archbishop of Sydney .
Life
Edward Clancy received a Catholic education and entered the age of 16 seminary of Springwood one. After theological and philosophical studies, he received the sacrament of ordination by Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy on July 23, 1949 and then worked for two years in the parish pastoral care . In 1951 his bishop sent him to Rome to the Pontificio Collegio S. Pietro Apostolo . He completed a degree in theology at the Angelicum and a degree in Holy Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute .
From 1955 to 1958 Edward Bede Clancy served as a priest in two parishes in his home diocese before he was appointed Professor and Dean of the Department of Biblical Theology at St. Columba's College in Springwood in 1958 . In 1961 he began another doctoral program, at the end he became a doctor of theology doctorate was. He was then appointed Chaplain at the University of Sydney and Professor of Biblical Theology at St. Patrick's College, Manly .
Pope Paul VI appointed him on October 25, 1973 . the titular bishop of Árd Carna and Auxiliary Bishop in Sydney. The episcopal ordination donated him on January 19, 1974 James Darcy Cardinal Freeman ; Co- consecrators were James Robert Cardinal Knox , Archbishop of Melbourne, and Thomas Vincent Cahill , Archbishop of Canberra.
Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Canberra on November 25, 1978 and Archbishop of Sydney on February 12, 1983. In the consistory of June 28, 1988 he accepted Clancy as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria in Vallicella in the college of cardinals . In 1998 he was at a synod in the Vatican that dealt with the Catholic Church in Oceania. He did not take part in the conclaves in 2005 and 2013 because the age limit was exceeded.
In 1995 he was appointed by the Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Furno as the first Grand Prior of the newly established Australian Lieutenancy of New South Wales of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .
Edward Clancy was the initiator of the canonization of Mary MacKillop , who was beatified in 1995 as the first and so far only personality of Australia and Oceania by Pope John Paul II and in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. was canonized .
Cardinal Clancy also had Saint Mary's Cathedral in Sydney , built in 1860, completed. He was the main initiator of the founding of the Australian Catholic University ; he was their first chancellor.
He died in August 2014 after a long illness in a Randwick nursing home where he had lived for eight years.
honors and awards
- 1984 - Appointment as a member of the Order of Australia OAM by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1992 - Appointment as Companion (AC) of the Order of Australia by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1995 - Accolade as Knight of the Holy Sepulcher by Carlo Cardinal Furno
Web links
- Entry on Edward Bede Clancy on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 26, 2013.
- Clancy, Edward Bede. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 2, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ perthnow.com.au ( Memento from August 4, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clancy, Edward Bede |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clancy, Cardinal Edward Bede (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian clergyman and theologian, Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lithgow , New South Wales, Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 2014 |
| Place of death | Randwick |