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•1853.07.29: Established as the Diocese of Quincy, with territory from the Diocese of Chicago •1857.01.09: See Transferred and Title Changed to Diocese of Alton •1887.01.07: Lost territory to establish the Diocese of Belleville •1923.10.26: See Transferred and Title Changed to the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois
Matthew Gibney (1 November 1835 – 22 June 1925) was an Irish-born metropolitan bishop in Australia and the third Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth, serving from 1886 until 1910. Gibney is perhaps best known for giving notorious bushranger Ned Kelly his last rites following a shootout at Glenrowan , Victoria , in 1880.
On 6 May 1845 the Diocese of Perth was erected in an area covered and administered previously by the Archdiocese of Sydney.. It lost territory repeatedly, to establish on 12 March 1867 the Benedictine Territorial Abbacy of New Norcia, on 10 May 1887 the Apostolic Vicariate of Kimberley in Western Australia and on 30 January 1898 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Geraldton.
As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris ...
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 07:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Joseph Nathaniel Perry (born April 18, 1948) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1998 to 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Perry is a past vice-president of the board of the National Black Catholic Congress , and chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB ...
Donald Sproxton (born 7 February 1953) is the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. He was consecrated by Archbishop Barry Hickey at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth on 21 February 2002. [1]
Patrick Joseph Clune CSsR (6 January 1864 in Ruan, County Clare, Ireland – 24 May 1935 in Perth), an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth and first Archbishop of Perth. Clune served continuously in these roles from 1910 to 1935.