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About Help Contact login Rev William Cuneo MSC Title: Rev First Name: William Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Cuneo Order: MSC Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 17-Mar-1984 Place of Death: Country of Death: Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Sydney, etc --- Fr Denis W. Martin, Priests of 1928, Brisbane, 2003, pp 184-185: Robert O'Donoghue, BA [...] Note 1: Fr Ignatius Bossence had been ordained an MSC overseas in 1912, was a Chaplain in World War I, then came to Australia and worked in the Wagga Diocese. He was not popular, and while Archbishop Duhig gave him the parish of Enoggera he never had the status of Parish Priest. He inherited £100,000 when one parishioner died but Archbishop Duhig contested it as a diocesan bequest - and lost. Bossence wandered South, then returned to live on the Gold Coast for several years. He held the Archdiocese to ransom for years so that even the bills for his housekeeper's stockings were arriving at Wynberg. Archbishop O'Donnell and solicitor J P Kelly then put a stop to it all. At this time he was living at Rose Bay in Sydney until at 83 he died in a nearby nursing home on 21st December 1969. His estate was valued at over $650,000! It was left to the Diocese of Canberra-Goulburn for the construction of the Canberra National War Memorial Catholic Cathedral which was never to be. Another MSC, William Cuneo learned Bossence's modus operandi and in the 1960s he too had to be threatened by J P Kelly.

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Fr Denis W. Martin, Priests of 1928, Brisbane, 2003, pp 184-185:
Robert O'Donoghue, BA

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Note 1: Fr Ignatius Bossence had been ordained an MSC overseas in 1912, was a Chaplain in World War I, then came to Australia and worked in the Wagga Diocese. He was not popular, and while Archbishop Duhig gave him the parish of Enoggera he never had the status of Parish Priest. He inherited £100,000 when one parishioner died but Archbishop Duhig contested it as a diocesan bequest - and lost. Bossence wandered South, then returned to live on the Gold Coast for several years. He held the Archdiocese to ransom for years so that even the bills for his housekeeper's stockings were arriving at Wynberg. Archbishop O'Donnell and solicitor J P Kelly then put a stop to it all. At this time he was living at Rose Bay in Sydney until at 83 he died in a nearby nursing home on 21st December 1969. His estate was valued at over $650,000! It was left to the Diocese of Canberra-Goulburn for the construction of the Canberra National War Memorial Catholic Cathedral which was never to be.

Another MSC, William Cuneo learned Bossence's modus operandi and in the 1960s he too had to be threatened by J P Kelly.

Rev William Cuneo MSC

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