Rev Peter Lyons
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Peter
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Lyons
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Bungonia NSW
Country of Birth:
Australia
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Randwick NSW
Country of Ordination:
Australia
Ordination Diocese:
Armidale
Seminary:
St Columba's College, Springwood, Australia
St Paul’s National Seminary, Kensington, Australia
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Tamworth NSW
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Gunnedah NSW
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armidale | Tamworth | Assistant Priest | May | 1978 | Campbell | ||||
| Armidale | Gunnedah | Assistant Priest | May | 1978 | 1989 | Campbell |
Biographical Notes
T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Lyons, Peter
Born on 20 February 1937 at Bungonia, near Goulburn NSW he was educated at Bungonia public school, then Chevalier College Bowral. After leaving school he worked for some years as a nurse with the St John of God community in Sydney. He originally commenced his seminary studies at St Columba's College Springwood for the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn, but withdrew after struggling with the course work such that he had to repeat a year. He returned to his nursing profession. In 1968 he resumed his studies at St Paul's National Seminary, Kensington, and was ordained for the Armidale diocese on 16 August 1972 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart church, Randwick by Bishop Henry Kennedy. His first appointment was as assistant priest, Tamworth. In May 1978 he was transferred to Gunnedah as assistant priest where he worked until he retired in 1989 because of illness. He continued to live in retirement in Gunnedah. His obituary in Gunnedah's Namoi Valley Independent newspaper commented on his life: 'He didn't stand on ceremony (was there ever a more unceremonious person?) and he easily saw through conceit and deception. But to those who needed help or understanding, he was a caring and compassionate friend, an emotional rock in a crisis, and for this, as much as anything else, he will be remembered by a very large number of people .... If there was one outstanding feature of his priestly life it was his great depth of compassion for people with serious or terminal illness and for those who had lost a family member or friend.' He died on 14 August 1991 in the Tamworth Base Hospital, and was buried at Gunnedah.
(Sources: CW 24 Aug 1972 p 2, NVI 15 Aug 1991, family notes).
(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)