Rev Joseph O'Brien
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Joseph
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O'Brien
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Australia
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Mortlake VIC
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Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballarat | Creswick | The Horsham Times, 1 October 1889 | |||||||
| Ballarat | Clunes | Parish Priest | 1883 | Sep | 1889 | The Horsham Times, 1 October 1889 | |||
| Ballarat | Horsham | Parish Priest | Sep | 1889 | The Horsham Times, 1 October 1889 | ||||
| Ballarat | Mortlake | Parish Priest | 1911 | 1938 | Gravestone |
Biographical Notes
The Horsham Times, 1 October 1889, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72878726:
The Horsham Roman Catholic mission is about to lose the ministrations of the Rev. Father John Hogan, who for the past two years has so devotedly and energetically fulfilled his sacred duties among his flock. The reverend gentleman is severing his connection with the mission, and proposes to take a trip to the old country, and it will be the earnest wish of his parishioners and the large circle of warm friends he has made in the Wimmera that he will be long spared in health to continue the work he has so ably carried out in this section of the world. During the two years he has been here, no fewer than four new churches have been opened,., viz., Natimuk, Warracknabeal, Lillimur and Nhill, and it is only within the past few years that the large district over which he had charge and which extended from Murtoa to Serviceton has been subdivided, portion being now administered by Father Howell, lately of Horsham. Father Hogan's work has been characterised by a frank, manly and zealous tone, which will cause his absence to be very severely felt. The charge of the Horsham mission was taken over at the end of last week by the Rev. Father Joseph O'Brien, who for the past six years has been in sole charge at Clunes, and before that at Creswick. Father Barrett remains at Horsham as assistant priest.
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The announcement was made last Sunday, by Father O'Brien, the newly appointed priest in charge of the Horsham mission, that the Redemptorist Fathers would commence a special Mission at Horsham on the 13th inst. Father O'Farrell, one of the most eloquent of pulpit orators, who is most enthusiastically spoken of by all who have heard him will be of the number to be engaged in this work which will occupy a fortnight;. There will be three services daily at the Roman Catholic Church, and the mission will conclude by Dr. James Moore, Bishop of Ballarat, administering the rite of confirmation to a large number of candidates who have been prepared by the Rev. Father Hogan.