Rev Ray O'Donoghue

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Geoffrey

Middle Names:

Raymond

Preferred Name:

Ray

Surname:

O'Donoghue

Order:

Date of Birth:

18-Feb-1907

Place of Birth:

Brisbane QLD

Country of Birth:

Australia

Date of Ordination:

1931

Place of Ordination:

Rome

Country of Ordination:

Italy

Ordination Diocese:

Brisbane

Seminary:

Date of Death:

22-Sep-1953

Place of Death:

Brisbane QLD

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

1953

Place of Burial:

Nudgee, Brisbane QLD

Country of Burial:

Australia

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183398367

Appointments Table

Diocese
Place
Role
Start Day
Start Month
Start Year
End Day
End Month
End Year
Source
Brisbane BrisbaneSecretary to ArchbishopPriests of 1928
Brisbane BrisbaneRector, St Leo's University CollegePriests of 1928
Brisbane BanyoLecturer, Pius XII Provincial SeminaryPriests of 1928
Brisbane Wavell HeightsParish Priest1946Sep1953Priests of 1928
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Biographical Notes

Fr Denis W. Martin, Priests of 1928, Brisbane, 2003, pp 184-185:
Robert O'Donoghue, BA

[...]

Note 2: Another Fr O'Donoghue in Brisbane was Fr Geoffrey Raymond O'Donoghue DD. He was Brisbane born [1907] and ordained in Rome in 1931. Ray, as he was known, was for a time Archbishop Duhig's secretary, Rector of St Leo's University College and on the staff of Banyo Seminary. In 1946 he went as Parish Priest to Wavell Heights where he died suddenly on 22nd September 1953. He was buried at Nudgee Cemetery, not in the priests' section but in the O'Donoghue family plot.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr Denis Martin.)