Dean Maurus O'Connell OSBTitle: Dean First Name: Daniel Middle Names: Vincent Preferred Name: Maurus Surname: O'Connell Order: OSB Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1825 Place of Birth:
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Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 12-Sep-1901 Place of Death: Launceston TAS Country of Death: Australia Date of Burial: 1901 Place of Burial: St Michael's, Campbell Town TAS Country of Burial: Australia Find A Grave URL: Biographical NotesSydney; Campbelltown, Tas --- Ordinations, Morning Chronicle, Sydney, 11 February 1846, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31747329: St. Mary's Cathedral.--His Grace the Archbishop conferred the Sacrament of Holy Orders, on Saturday, the 31st of January, the feast of St. Peter, Nolasco, when the following candidates received respectively the Orders-- Of Subdeacon, Daniel Maurus O'Connell--Of Deacon, John Ignatius McLenan, James Paul Roche, Henry Thomas Fines, and Thomas Joseph Murray. On last Saturday, the 7th, the feast of St. Romuald, Abbot, the last named Deacon, the Rev. Thomas Joseph Murray, was ordained Priest. --- Changes in the Roman Catholic Church, Sydney Mail, 15 November 1862, p 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166693355: We are informed, from a reliable source, that the following changes are about to take place. The Very Rev. Dean Lynch has been appointed Vicar Foran, with spiritual jurisdiction over the members of his church in the district of New England, the Clarence, &c. The reverend gentleman, after a residence of twenty-five years in Maitland, will in future be stationed in Armidale. He will be replaced by Dean O'Connell as Dean of Maitland. [...]—Armidale Express, November 8. |