Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie
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 Port Pirie 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 Adelaide, erected in 1887 covering the Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, Flinders Ranges, Nullarbor Plain, and Mid and Far North regions of South Australia, Australia.
History
The Diocese of Port Augusta was canonically erected by Pope Leo XIII on 10 May 1887, the same day the pope elevated the See of Adelaide to a metropolitan archdiocese and placed the new diocese in its province. On 5 August 1951 the seat of the diocese was moved from Port Augusta to Port Pirie, with the name of the diocese being also changed.[1]
Boundaries
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Bishops
The following men have been Bishops of Port Pirie or any of its precursor titles:[2]
Order Name Title Date enthroned Reign ended Term of office Reason for term end Template:Nts John O'Reily † Bishop of Port Augusta 13 May 1887 5 January 1895 Template:Age in years and days Elevated as Archbishop of Adelaide Template:Nts James Maher † Bishop of Port Augusta 10 January 1896 20 December 1905 Template:Age in years and days Died in office Template:Nts John Henry Norton † Bishop of Port Augusta 18 August 1906 22 March 1923 Template:Age in years and days Died in office Template:Nts Andrew Killian † Bishop of Port Augusta 26 February 1924 11 July 1933 Template:Age in years and days Elevated as Coadjutor Archbishop of Adelaide Template:Nts Norman Thomas Gilroy † Bishop of Port Augusta 10 December 1934 1 July 1937 Template:Age in years and days Elevated as Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney Template:Nts John Joseph Lonergan † Bishop-Elect of Port Augusta 8 January 1938 14 July 1938 Script error: No such module "age". days Died prior to being ordained as Bishop Template:Nts Thomas Absolem McCabe † Bishop of Port Augusta 13 December 1938 15 November 1951 Template:Age in years and days Appointed as Bishop of Wollongong Template:Nts Bryan Gallagher † Bishop of Port Pirie 13 March 1952 11 August 1980 Template:Age in years and days Resigned and appointed Bishop Emeritus of Port Pirie Template:Nts Francis Peter de Campo † Bishop of Port Pirie 11 August 1980 23 April 1998 Template:Age in years and days Died in office Template:Nts Daniel Eugene Hurley Bishop of Port Pirie 27 November 1998 3 July 2007 Template:Age in years and days Appointed as Bishop of Darwin Template:Nts Gregory O'Kelly SJ Bishop of Port Pirie 15 April 2009 1 August 2020 Template:Age in years and days Retired 12 Karol Kulczycki SDS Bishop of Port Pirie
Coadjutor bishop
- Francis Peter de Campo † (1979–1980)
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Francis Augustin Henschke †, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Adelaide in 1937
Sexual abuse cases
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The Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that Port Pirie was the third-worst diocese in the country, with 14.1% of its priests accused of abuse.[3]
In 2007, Father Charles Barnett was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia where he had fled in 1995, and extradited to Australia.[4] Barnett pled guilty in 2009 to three child sex charges for events between 1977 and 1985 at Crystal Brook and Port Pirie.[5] He was sentenced for a fourth crime occurring in 1994 and was rearrested in for other crimes after his release.[6]
See also
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References
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External links
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