Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Diocese of Armidale is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Australia. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Sydney. The Diocese of Armidale was established by 1862[1] and covers the New England and Barwon River regions of New South Wales.

Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic Cathedral is the cathedra of the Bishop of Armidale, previously vacant after Michael Kennedy was appointed to the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.[2][3] On February 27th 2025, news broke that Pope Francis had appointed Rev. Dr Peter Murphy the new Bishop of Armidale. [4]

Up until this point the Administrator was Monsignor Edward (Ted) Wilkes, and the administrator sat with the other Australian Bishops while attending the Parramatta funeral of former Bishop Kevin Manning in 2024.

Archbishop Anthony Fisher was principal consecrator of Bishop Peter Mel Murphy. The catholic weekly published the homily.[5] The occasion was published on youtube. [6]

History

Erected 28 November 1862. (See footnote also for succinct list of past and present appointments.)[7] Promptly following the philanthropic acquisition and dedication of land on the western side of central park Armidale, the foundation stone of the first of two brick cathedrals was laid and blessed on 8 December 1870, by the Administrator Monsignor John Thomas Lynch, an alumnus of St Patrick's Maynooth Ireland, on the same day that St Joseph was named as the patron of the Universal Church.[8] The first bishop, Most Reverend Timothy O'Mahony D.D, an alumnus of the Irish College in Rome and a director of the missionary movement of Propaganda Fide for Ireland, was forced to resign over politically motivated false allegations of alcoholism and fathering a child, although he was eventually cleared by a church investigation and subsequent events.[9] A sesquicentenary celebration of Bishop O'Mahony's installation at Armidale, by Archbishop Polding, an English Benedictine, was celebrated on 9.3.2021 and led by Archbishop Fisher and Bishop Kennedy.[10] A large white 2021 dated memorial stone has since been installed on the south side of the cathedral front doors-complementing that on the north side of the cathedral pyrmont sandstone front doors that commemorates another significant event being the blessing of the current cathedral by Cardinal Moran.

Bishops

Bishops of Armidale:[7][11]

Order Name Title Date installed Term ended Term of office Reason for term end
Template:Nts Timothy O'Mahony Bishop of Armidale 1869 July 1877 Template:Age in years years Resigned from Rome
Template:Nts Elzear Torreggiani Bishop of Armidale November 1879 January 1904 Template:Age in years years Died in office
Template:Nts Patrick O'Connor Coadjutor Bishop of Armidale May 1903 January 1904 Template:Age in years year Succeeded as Bishop of Armidale
Bishop of Armidale January 1904 July 1932 Template:Age in years years Died in office
Template:Nts John Coleman Coadjutor Bishop of Armidale September 1929 July 1932 Template:Age in years years Succeeded as Bishop of Armidale
Bishop of Armidale July 1932 December 1947 Template:Age in years years Died in office
Template:Nts Edward Doody Bishop of Armidale Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Age in years and days Died in office
Template:Nts James Darcy Freeman Bishop of Armidale December 1968 1971 Template:Age in years years Elevated as Archbishop of Sydney
Template:Nts Henry Kennedy Bishop of Armidale February 1972 Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Age in years years Retired
Template:Nts Kevin Manning Bishop of Armidale Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Age in years and days Elevated as Bishop of Parramatta
Template:Nts Luc Julian Matthys Bishop of Armidale March 1999 December 2011 Template:Age in years years Retired as Emeritus Bishop of Armidale
Template:Nts Michael Kennedy Bishop of Armidale February 2012 February 2023 Template:Age in years years Appointed to Maitland–Newcastle.
Template:Nts Peter Murphy Bishop of Armidale 8 May 2025

James Darcy Freeman was elevated to Cardinal in 1973, concurrent with Archbishop of Sydney.

Coadjutors are included above.

Other priests of the diocese who became bishops

Cathedral

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The diocesan cathedral is dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Joseph and is located in Dangar Street, Armidale, opposite Armidale Central Park and diagonally opposite the Anglican cathedral. It was built in 1911 of Pyrmont stone and Armidale polychrome brick.[12] It was solemnly dedicated on 12 December 1919.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Parishes

since November 2014Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there are currently 25 parishes located in Diocese of Armidale:

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References

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  1. ↑ https://www.sydneycatholic.org/addresses-and-statements/2021/oration-on-the-150th-anniversary-of-the-installation-of-the-first-bishop-of-armidale/
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  5. ↑ https://catholicweekly.com.au/new-farmer-of-souls-bishop-peter-murphy/
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2jbNJJZwg&t=2513s
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External links

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