Archdeacon Thomas Devoy SM
Title:
Archdeacon
First Name:
Thomas
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Preferred Name:
Surname:
Devoy
Order:
SM
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Co Laois
Country of Birth:
Ireland
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Seminary:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Wellington
Country of Death:
New Zealand
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Karori, Wellington
Country of Burial:
New Zealand
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | Christchurch | 1880 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||||
| Wellington | Kumara | 1881 | 1882 | Linane Vol 2 | |||||
| Wellington | Timaru | 1882 | 1883 | Linane Vol 2 | |||||
| Wellington | Wellington | Procurator, St Patrick's College | 1891 | 1900 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||
| Wellington | Wellington | Marist Provincial | 1900 | 1907 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||
| Wellington | Newtown | 1908 | 1919 | Linane Vol 2 | |||||
| Wellington | Island Bay | 1919 | Jun | 1927 | Linane Vol 2 |
Biographical Notes
Catholic Church. Pioneer Priests. Labours in Early Days. A Notable Band, Evening Post, Wellington, 24 February 1938, p 20, https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19380224.2.174:
[...] Archdeacon Devoy
The Ven. Archdeacon Thomas Devoy, S.M., was born in Ireland in 1843, and arrived in New Zealand in 1879. When St. Patrick's College was first opened Father Devoy was made vice-rector, a post he held until 1891, when he was appointed parish priest at Te Aro. In 1900 he was made Provincial of the Society of Mary and held this office for some seven years. Archdeacon Devoy became parish priest of Newtown in 1908 and was later appointed to the new parish of Island Bay. He died at Island Bay on June 11, 1927, when within three months of his golden jubilee of priesthood. [...]
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Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 140:
Devoy, Thomas, Very Rev., SM, Irish
Marist Provincial in New Zealand
Another passer-by through Sydney in 1878 or 1879. In the Marist Year Book of 1927 for New Zealand and Australia the following details are recorded. Thomas Devoy was born in Queens County, Diocese of Kildare, on 24 April 1843. He studied at Dundalk and Belley in France, receiving his Marist profession on 29 September 1874. After his Ordination in 1877 he taught at Dundalk and the following year (or 1879) arrived in New Zealand. He served at Christchurch (1880), Kumara (1881-2), Timaru (1882-3), becoming Procurator at St. Patrick's College, Wellington in the years 1891-1900; was Marist Provincial in the years 1900-1907: gave service at St. Anne's Wellington from 1908 to 1919 and at Island Bay from 1919 to 1927. A golden jubilee of service in the priesthood had been attained when he died in Wellington on 11 June 1927. Some of the more precise datings given above have been taken from Father John Hosie's Thesis 'The Marist Fathers in Australia' (Appendix, Sydney 1971).
(Footprints, Vol. 3, No. 9)