Faith, Ireland and Empire : The life of Patrick Joseph Clune CSsR 1864 – 1935, Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia

Dowd, Christopher
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WEST AUSTRALIANA BIOGRAPHY RELIGION

 

     A biography of Archbishop Clune, fourth bishop and first archbishop of Perth, Western Australia. Patrick Joseph Clune was typical of the men who governed the Australian Catholic Church in the first third of the 1900s. Born and educated in a lower middle-class rural family in Victorian Ireland, Archbishop Clune belonged to the last generation of Irish-Australian builder bishops presiding in Perth over vigorous parochial, educational and social welfare expansion. He stood out from his episcopal collagues.

His appointment as a Redemptorist bishop went against the trend whereby Catholic Australia moved away from its colonial reliance on members of religious institutes for leadership. At the start of his term of office he hauled the Perth diocese out of a grave financial crisis. Aware that he was the head of a minority religious community in an isolated, very British part of Australia in a period of sectarian tensions, Clune was resolved to promote harmony in Western Australian society.

xxiv, 416 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm #230523 Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-399) and index.

Clune, Patrick Joseph.  |  Bishops — Western Australia — Biography.  |  Catholic Church — Bishops — Biography.  |  Priests — Ireland.  |  Australian
 

Additional Information

Author Dowd, Christopher
Number of pages416
PublisherSt Pauls Publications
Year Published2014
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

Very Good

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