John Barry (Bishop, 1875)

John Barry (born June 18, 1875 near Freemount , County Cork , † March 22, 1938 in Sydney ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn .

Life

John Barry was born in June 1875 as the eldest of 10 siblings of farmer Simon Barry and his wife Mary. The family was very religious. Two of his sisters later became nuns . Barry himself later took a similar path, preparing for the priesthood at St Patrick's College in Maynooth . He was ordained a priest there on June 18, 1899 and left for Australia that same year . He reached Melbourne on November 8th . After serving as a curate in Dandenong and St Kilda East , he was parish minister in Mansfield from 1907 to 1912 . In 1912 Barry became parish priest in Balaclava and in March 1917 he was appointed Administrator of St. Patrick's Cathedral and Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Melbourne by Archbishop Thomas Joseph Carr . When Carr died two months later, Barry was confirmed by Carr's successor Archbishop Daniel Mannix . When Mannix was not in Australia for a short time in 1920, Barry represented him in the archdiocese. Part of the reason for this was the reputation he had built as a hardworking and effective organizer over the years, and the trust and friendship that the two men from the same Irish diocese had in common.

On March 5, 1924 Barry became the Bishop of Goulburn appointed and received on June 29 by the apostolic delegate Bartolomeo Cattaneo , the episcopal ordination . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes , William Hayden , and the Bishop of Wagga Wagga , Joseph Wilfrid Dwyer .

As bishop, he renovated Saints Peter and Paul's Cathedral in Goulburn , expanded the Hospital of St John of God, expanded the care of orphans and founded a technical school and a diocese library. In addition, Barry also began to expand the Catholic institutions in Canberra. In his diocese, he was so during the Great Depression as a building bishop known. Barry was an outspoken advocate of systematic visits and as such was often out and about in his diocese.

Barry fell ill while attending the Regional Missionary and Eucharistic Congress in Newcastle and finally died on March 22, 1938 at Lewisham Hospital , Sydney, of coronary artery occlusion. He was buried in the Catholic Cemetery in Kenmore, Goulburn.

Web links

• Patrick O'Farrell: John Barry (Bishop, 1875) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
• Entry for John Barry on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
John Gallagher	Bishop of Goulburn 1924–1938	Terence Bernard McGuire