Rev Austin Woodbury SM
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Austin
Middle Names:
Maloney
Preferred Name:
Surname:
Woodbury
Order:
SM
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Lower Mangrove (Spencer) NSW
Country of Birth:
Australia
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Rome
Country of Ordination:
Italy
Ordination Diocese:
Seminary:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Darlinghurst, Sydney NSW
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Reinterred: Spencer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | Wellington | Teacher, St Patrick's College | 1929 | ADB | |||||
| Wellington | Greenmeadows | Teacher | 1930 | 1936 | ADB | ||||
| Sydney | Toongabbie | Rector, Blessed Peter Chanel's Seminary | 1938 | 1943 | ADB | ||||
| Sydney | Sydney | Aquinas Academy | 1945 | 1974 | ADB |
Biographical Notes
Philosopher and theologian.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography entry: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/woodbury-austin-maloney-12066
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For further reference: Aquinas Academy 1945-2015: A Very Personal Australian Story by Julie Thorpe:
This book tells the stories of women and men of the Aquinas Academy, a centre of adult education in Sydney founded in 1945 by an Australian Marist priest, Austin Woodbury. The book places the personal narratives within the social, cultural and intellectual landscape of Australian Catholicism spanning seven decades. Chapters trace the founding vision of the academy as a Catholic institution of higher education affiliated with Saint Thomas Aquinas’s university in Rome, the expansion of programmes of adult spirituality across the eastern Australian states and the growing place of contemplative and mystical prayer in a church rediscovering its spiritual core. Combining archival research and conversations with former students and staff about childhood, war, family and the struggles to make sense of losses and loves, the Aquinas Academy is a story ultimately about adults learning to grow up.