Rev Edward Callanan

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Edward

Middle Names:

Joseph

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Surname:

Callanan

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Date of Birth:

1840

Place of Birth:

Kilmacduane, Co Clare

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

24-Mar-1869

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Country of Ordination:

Australia

Ordination Diocese:

Melbourne

Seminary:

All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

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Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Melbourne Geelong18691871Linane Vol 2
Melbourne GisborneLinane Vol 2
Melbourne BrightonLinane Vol 2
Armidale ?Feb1873Dec1873Linane Vol 2; Campbell
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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 16:

Callanan, Edward Joseph, Irish
Discontent with Melbourne Mission
The son of Edmund Callanan and Bridget Connolly, Edward (or Edmund) Joseph was born in 1840 at Kilmacduane, Diocese of Killaloe, County Clare. (All Hallows Records of Priests). Before going to the All Hallows Seminary he had studied at Mount Melleray. He was at All Hallows from 1863 to 1867. When Bishop Hynes came to visit All Hallows as agent of Bishop Goold, he advised the youth in delicate health to proceed to Melbourne. Minor Orders had been received in All Hallows, and so the rest of the studies were completed under the Jesuit Fathers at St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne. He was ordained on 24 March 1869 by Dr. Goold. First years were spent in Geelong, 1869-71, followed by brief periods at Gisborne and Brighton. His letters to authorities indicate that he was discontented with his lot, homesick, and in poor health as well. He transferred to Armidale for a while and from there wrote to Dr. Fitzpatrick V.G. seeking an 'exeat' on the plea that his aged father was longing to see him. And there the trail ends.
(Footprints, Vol. 1, No. 12)

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Kevin Condon, CM, The Missionary College of All Hallows 1842-1891, Dublin, 1986. Appendix: Matricula 1842-91:

No. 846. Edward Callanan, 1863, Mt Melleray. Of Edmund and Bridget Connolly, Kilmacduane, Killaloe; b. 6.1.'40. Ord. for Melbourne, 24.4.'69 by Bp Goold. To Armidale after a few years. To Ireland?

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T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Callanan, Edmund J

Date and place of birth unknown. Details of education unknown. Seminary or College where he studied for the priesthood unknown. Date and place of ordination unknown. Date of arrival in Australia unknown. Possibly based in Armidale from February to December 1873. Recorded by Doody as one of the priests who attended the first Synod of the Diocese in Armidale in November 1873. No other details of his activities within the diocese or after that date are known. Date and place of death unknown. Place of burial unknown.
(Sources: Farrell, Doody)

(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)