Monsignor William Corr
Title:
Monsignor
First Name:
William
Middle Names:
Laurence
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Corr
Order:
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Dublin
Country of Birth:
Ireland
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
St John Lateran, Rome
Country of Ordination:
Italy
Ordination Diocese:
Armidale
Seminary:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Tamworth NSW
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Wee Waa NSW
Country of Burial:
Australia
Find A Grave URL:
Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armidale | Tamworth | Curate | 1938 | Campbell | |||||
| Armidale | Armidale | Campbell | |||||||
| Armidale | Moree | Campbell | |||||||
| Australia | Army | Army Chaplain | 1942 | 1946 | Campbell | ||||
| Armidale | Inverell | Curate | 1946 | 1949 | Campbell | ||||
| Armidale | Emmaville | Parish Priest | 1950 | 1953 | Campbell | ||||
| Armidale | Wee Waa | 1953 | 1967 | Campbell | |||||
| Armidale | Narrabri | Parish Priest | 1967 | 1977 | Campbell |
Biographical Notes
T.W. Campbell, The Priests of the Diocese of Armidale: A Necrology, Braddon ACT, 2005:
Corr, William Laurence
Born on 13 April 1912, Dublin, Ireland. Details of education unknown. College at which he studied unknown, but probably the Irish College, Rome. Ordained in the Basilica of St John Lateran, Rome, on 22 May 1937. After arrival in the Armidale diocese in 1938 he was appointed assistant priest Tamworth, followed by Armidale and Moree. From 1942 to 1946 he served as an army chaplain in Papua New Guinea. He returned to duty in the diocese in 1946 as assistant priest Inverell (to 1949), occasionally providing relief at Guyra and Walcha. He was appointed parish priest Emmaville in 1950, then transferred to Wee Waa in 1953. In 1967 he was appointed as a Domestic Prelate (Monsignor) and transferred to Narrabri, where he was parish priest until 1977, when he retired. He then moved to Nazareth House, Tamworth, where he was residing when he died on 9 September 1989. He was buried at Wee Waa.
(Sources: NDL 12 Sep 1989 p 16, Courier 12 Sep 1989 pp 2, 12, headstone).
(Reproduced by permission of Tom Campbell.)