Very Rev Felix Schurr
Title:
Very Rev
First Name:
Felix
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Schurr
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Dambach, Alsace-Moselle
Country of Birth:
France
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Paris
Country of Ordination:
France
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Seminary:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Casino NSW
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Casino NSW
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armidale | Casino | 1872 | ADB | ||||||
| Armidale | Maclean | 1880 | 1882 | ADB | |||||
| Armidale | South Grafton | 1886 | 1888 | Campbell | |||||
| Lismore | Casino | 1889 | Campbell | ||||||
| Lismore | Palmer's Island | 1890 | 1891 | Campbell | |||||
| Lismore | Coraki | 1892 | 1894 | Campbell | |||||
| Lismore | Casino | 1895 | Jul | 1900 | Campbell | ||||
| Lismore | ? | Vicar General | 1899 |
Biographical Notes
Missionary, early priest in the Clarence, Richmond and Tweed valleys.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography entry: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/schurr-felix-4544
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T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Schurr, Felix (Abbé)
Born Strasburg, Alsace-Lorraine, France, 27 February 1827, the son of a vigneron. Ordained Paris 1851. Assigned to missions in West Indies (Antilles). Ill health forced return from Martinique to Paris. He became Professor of Languages at All Hallows, Dublin at the invitation of Cardinal Cullen, and later was Professor of Languages at the University of Dublin. He also was musically gifted. He spent 17 years in Ireland. He offered himself to Bishop Timothy O'Mahony for the Armidale diocese, arriving in Sydney with him on 4 March 1871, and was assigned to northern coastal region of diocese, with Casino as his base. He advocated the growth of sugar cane along the coastal regions. He built the first chapel in Lismore. Following its establishment he remained in the new diocese of Grafton, later Lismore, and was appointed Vicar General in 1899. Appointments included South Grafton 1886-88, Casino 1899, Palmer's Island 1890-91, Coraki 1892-94, Casino 1895-1900. He died in Casino on 17 July 1900 and is buried in Casino.
(Sources: Farrell, Kelly, D J Stewart, 'One of the Great Men in Richmond River History: The Venerable Abbé Felix Schurr', in ACHS Newsletter Vol VIII, No 4, Nov 1997, Louise Tiffany Daley, Men and a River: a History of the Richmond River District 1828-1895, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1966 pp 87-88, MDHC A-Z S17).
(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)