Rev Augustine Coleman OSA
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Joseph
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
Augustine
Surname:
Coleman
Order:
OSA
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Gowmanstown, Co Meath
Country of Birth:
Ireland
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Country of Ordination:
Ordination Diocese:
Seminary:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Philadelphia PA
Country of Death:
USA
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Philadelphia PA
Country of Burial:
USA
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandhurst | Echuca | Dec | 1886 | 1889 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||
| Cairns | Cooktown | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Cairns | Port Douglas | 1894 | Linane Vol 2 |
Biographical Notes
Death of the Rev. Joseph A. Coleman, O.S.A., Advocate, Melbourne, 30 August 1902, p 16, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169737466:
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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 61:
Coleman, Joseph Augustine, OSA, Irish
Augustinian Prior In Many Places
The new Augustinian Research Commission in Australia may be able to fill in the gaps in this brief biography. ... Little is known of family background, except that Joseph was born in Gowmanston, County Meath, and that most of his priesthood studies were completed in Ghent, Belgium, between 1864 and 1868. He gave service in Ireland after Ordination and until 1875. 1871-5 would seem to have been the period when he was Prior at Drogheda - a big assignment for a man only three years after Ordination. The years 1875-1886 were spent in U.S.A. and for at least a part of the time he was Prior of the American Augustinian College at Villanova. In January 1887 we find him stationed in northern Victoria, at Echuca, where in his three or four years stay he completed St. Mary's Church - famous for its mural decorations. (Advocate 30.8.1902). According to the late John Gargan (Meredith), who researched the history of the OSAs in N.E. Victoria, Prior Coleman, Fr. J.A. Knowles and Fr. T.A. Meredith constituted the Augustinian 'take-over' on 20 December 1886, arranged with Rome by Bishop Martin Crane, himself an Augustinian. Seculars - O'Connell, McGillicuddy, etc. - had figured in Echuca history before that time, as well as an Augustinian, Nicholas Bassetto, a volunteer who served in the Western Desert, Daylesford and elsewhere; and who appears to have completed his missionary service at Corop - a small town not far from Echuca. Apart from building St. Mary's, Coleman set up a Catholic School in his stay from 1886 to 1889 (or possibly until the early 1890s). After the assignment in N.E. Victoria came an administratorship at the 'boom' town of Cooktown, where the bishop, Dr. Hutchison [Hutchinson] OSA resided in those times. The Directories of 1893 and 4 place him at Port Douglas where he completed his ten year stay in Australia. In the second stay in U.S.A. he was stationed at the Italian Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Philadelphia. The 'Advocate' report of his death states that he died in Atlantic City. But my Dublin correspondent states that his obsequies were presided over by Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, and that he was highly respected by the priests there. (There may not be a contradiction in the reports as recorded). The death date is given as 2 July 1902.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 7)
Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay, per Late John Gargan, Meredith, & Advocate 30.8.1902.