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About Help Contact login Rev Austin Byrne OSB Title: Rev First Name: James Middle Names: Preferred Name: Austin Surname: Byrne Order: OSB Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Date of Ordination: 22-Sep-1866 Place of Ordination: St Mary's Temporary Cathedral, Sydney NSW Country of Ordination: Australia Ordination Diocese: Sydney Seminary: Date of Death: 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 Ordination in St. Mary's Cathedral, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 22 September 1866, p 594, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115453891: On this morning, at 7 o'clock, Bishop Eloy will go through the imposing ceremony of conferring the order of priesthood upon the Rev. Austin Byrne, of Lyndhurst College. Several other young gentlemen will receive minor orders. The ceremony will take place in St. Mary's Temporary Cathedral. --- Ordination, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 29 September 1866, p 618, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115452323: On last Saturday morning the imposing ceremony of conferring the order of priesthood was performed in the temporary cathedral. In the absence of His Grace the Archbishop the rite was gone through by the Right Rev. Dr. Eloy coadjutor to the diocese of Oceanica. Besides the order of priesthood which was conferred upon the Rev. J. A. Byrne the following received the tonsure and minor orders, Brothers Bonaventure Curr, Placid Quirk, Bernard Callachor of the Benedictine order and Mr. Bennett secular. The ceremony commenced at 8 o'clock and the following clergy either took part or were present, assistant priest very Rev. S. A. Sheehy V.G., venerable Archdeacon McEncroe, assistant deacon and sub-deacon, Fathers Fitzpatrick and O'Farrell, master of ceremonies Father John Dwyer, Very Rev. Prior Sheridan, Revs. Fathers Powell, Newman, Crone, Quirk, McDevitt, Laffan and Darcy. The service which is a very long one was witnessed by a large congregation. Father Byrne will celebrate his first Mass in St. Mary's on Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock, the feast of the Angels Guardian. --- Roman Catholic Church, Richmond, The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser, 25 April 1874, p 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70660231: A meeting of the Parishioners of the Catholic Church at Richmond took place after Divine Service on Sunday morning last, for the purpose of inaugurating a Committee to carry out in the most suitable manner a system of collecting, and maintaining a fund for the support of the clergyman, the Rev. Austin Byrne, who has recently been appointed to assist the Rev. Dr. Sheehy in the charge of his district, which includes a very large area. Extending as it does from Castlereagh in one direction to the lower McDonald in the other. It is a pleasing fact to observe that since the Rev. Doctors arrival amongst us, the congregation in each of the churches has largely increased. --- Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 4: Byrne, James Austin, OSB, Irish, Left Mission Language Professor at Lyndhurst The follow-up to the career of this man is found in 'Tjurunga' (Benedictine Review), Appendix 1, p. 41. County of origin is unknown. He first appears as a Benedictine postulant at St. Mary's Sydney in 1856. He received the Religious Habit on 29.6.1857 and was professed at Lyndhurst on 18.8.1858. Minor Orders were conferred on 19.3.1859 and Diaconate on 28.2.1863. Soon after priesthood ordination on 7.9.1866 he was appointed a military chaplain. Probably before ordination, and certainly after, he taught Greek and Latin at St. Mary's Lyndhurst. CD's of 1870 & 1871 give his places of service as Darlinghurst and St. Benedict's, Broadway. Some time later he left the priesthood and married a lady who had been in the religious life. How he fared in the matrimonial state is not recorded. Ref: as quoted. --- A Prayer-Calendar of Deceased Priests & Deacons in Australia 1788-2009, compiled by W.T. Southerwood, Sixth Edition, 2009, p 139, date of death unknown: "James Austin Byrne OSB, Wollongong, etc, NSW".

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Ordination in St. Mary's Cathedral, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 22 September 1866, p 594, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115453891:

On this morning, at 7 o'clock, Bishop Eloy will go through the imposing ceremony of conferring the order of priesthood upon the Rev. Austin Byrne, of Lyndhurst College. Several other young gentlemen will receive minor orders. The ceremony will take place in St. Mary's Temporary Cathedral.

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Ordination, Freeman's Journal, Sydney, 29 September 1866, p 618, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115452323:

On last Saturday morning the imposing ceremony of conferring the order of priesthood was performed in the temporary cathedral. In the absence of His Grace the Archbishop the rite was gone through by the Right Rev. Dr. Eloy coadjutor to the diocese of Oceanica. Besides the order of priesthood which was conferred upon the Rev. J. A. Byrne the following received the tonsure and minor orders, Brothers Bonaventure Curr, Placid Quirk, Bernard Callachor of the Benedictine order and Mr. Bennett secular. The ceremony commenced at 8 o'clock and the following clergy either took part or were present, assistant priest very Rev. S. A. Sheehy V.G., venerable Archdeacon McEncroe, assistant deacon and sub-deacon, Fathers Fitzpatrick and O'Farrell, master of ceremonies Father John Dwyer, Very Rev. Prior Sheridan, Revs. Fathers Powell, Newman, Crone, Quirk, McDevitt, Laffan and Darcy. The service which is a very long one was witnessed by a large congregation. Father Byrne will celebrate his first Mass in St. Mary's on Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock, the feast of the Angels Guardian.

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Roman Catholic Church, Richmond, The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser, 25 April 1874, p 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70660231:

A meeting of the Parishioners of the Catholic Church at Richmond took place after Divine Service on Sunday morning last, for the purpose of inaugurating a Committee to carry out in the most suitable manner a system of collecting, and maintaining a fund for the support of the clergyman, the Rev. Austin Byrne, who has recently been appointed to assist the Rev. Dr. Sheehy in the charge of his district, which includes a very large area. Extending as it does from Castlereagh in one direction to the lower McDonald in the other. It is a pleasing fact to observe that since the Rev. Doctors arrival amongst us, the congregation in each of the churches has largely increased.

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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 4:
Byrne, James Austin, OSB, Irish, Left Mission
Language Professor at Lyndhurst
The follow-up to the career of this man is found in 'Tjurunga' (Benedictine Review), Appendix 1, p. 41. County of origin is unknown. He first appears as a Benedictine postulant at St. Mary's Sydney in 1856. He received the Religious Habit on 29.6.1857 and was professed at Lyndhurst on 18.8.1858. Minor Orders were conferred on 19.3.1859 and Diaconate on 28.2.1863. Soon after priesthood ordination on 7.9.1866 he was appointed a military chaplain. Probably before ordination, and certainly after, he taught Greek and Latin at St. Mary's Lyndhurst. CD's of 1870 & 1871 give his places of service as Darlinghurst and St. Benedict's, Broadway. Some time later he left the priesthood and married a lady who had been in the religious life. How he fared in the matrimonial state is not recorded.
Ref: as quoted.

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A Prayer-Calendar of Deceased Priests & Deacons in Australia 1788-2009, compiled by W.T. Southerwood, Sixth Edition, 2009, p 139, date of death unknown: "James Austin Byrne OSB, Wollongong, etc, NSW".

Rev Austin Byrne OSB

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