Rev Patrick Phelan
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Rev
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Patrick
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Phelan
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Ireland
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Australia
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Rockhampton QLD
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Australia
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Biographical Notes
Prayer Calendar: Deceased Priests who have ministered the Catholic Faith throughout Toowoomba and districts, 1864–2025, Compiled by Annie Carrett, Diocesan Archivist, 2001, Updated by Gabrielle Saide, Diocesan Archivist, 2023:
Rev Patrick Phelan, died 8 Sep 1936
Born c1910 and ordained in Ireland 1935, he was one of the young Irish priests who arrived in Toowoomba that same year and was loaned to the Bishop of Rockhampton. He contracted pneumonia and died a year after his ordination. He died aged 25 years and is buried in Rockhampton.
(Ref. Southerwood.)
Reproduced by permission of Bishop Ken Howell.