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Dr William Bernard Ullathorne
1806-1889
 William Bernard Ullathorne was born on 7 May 1806 at Pocklington, Yorkshire,
England, the eldest of ten children of William Ullathorne and his wife Hannah
Longstaff. At 12 his schooling was cut short and he entered the family business
at Scarborough. Soon afterwards he was apprenticed before the mast and was
at sea for four years. Ashore in Memel, however, he experienced a sudden
and decisive religious conversion and in February 1823 he entered the English
Benedictine school at Downside and the Abbey in the following year. John
Bede Polding was then his novice-master and was set to continue to dominate
his spiritual and intellectual formation for many years.
On 16 September 1832 Ullathorne sailed for Sydney. He took control without
any hesitation; Governor Bourke, Father McEncroe and the leading. Catholic
laymen were all relieved to have Ullathorne’s clear business head in
charge. By July 1833 the Legislative Council made grants for the appointment
of four new chaplains, the completion of three unfinished churches, and £800
a year for schools and schoolteachers. By Christmas 1833, St Mary’s
was in use and Ullathorne had visited the Hunter River and Bathurst; the
next year
he visited Norfolk Island and the Illawarra district.
Ullathorne strongly urged the appointment of a bishop resident in Sydney,
and in May 1834 Propaganda issued the brief of Polding’s appointment as Vicar
Apostolic for New South Wales. Polding arrived in Sydney in September 1835
with one priest, three ecclesiastical students and a catechist, all paid by
the government. Ullathorne then became parish priest of Parramatta.
He returned to England but continued to work for the Australian mission,
travelling widely to recruit teachers and priests and raise money. He embarked
on 17 August
1838 with three priests, four students and five nuns, arriving in Sydney
on 31 December. He had now added fifteen clergy to the mission.
1840 was to be Ullathorne’s most active year in Australia, teaching at
the seminary, lecturing publicly on the Catholic religion, and administering
the diocese while the bishop travelled its length and breadth founding a dozen
new churches and schools.
Ullathorne was later made bishop and later archbishop of Birmingham.
In 1888 Ullathorne retired from his diocese to Oscott College, where
he died
on 21
March 1889. Return to Significant Early
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The Previous Archbishops of the Archdiocese of Sydney
The Predecessor Auxiliary and Co-adjutor Archbishops
of the Archdiocese of Sydney
- Charles Henry Davis OSB, 1848-1854. Also
Titular Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle.
- Joseph Higgins, 1889. (Appointed Bishop
of Rockhampton 1889).
- Michael Sheehan, Co-adjutor Archbishop
1922-1937.
- Eris Norman Michael O'Brien, 1948-1953.
(Appointed Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn 1953.)
- Patrick Francis Lyons, 1950-1956. (Appointed
Co-adjutor Bishop Sale 1956. Bishop 1957-1967.)
- James Patrick Carroll, 1954-1965.
Retired 1984. Died 1995.
- James Darcy Cardinal Freeman, 1957-1969
- Thomas William Muldoon, 1960-1986.
- Edward Francis Kelly MSC, 1969-1975.
(Appointed Bishop
of Toowoomba 1975.)
- Edward Bede Cardinal Clancy AC, 1973-1978.
(Appointed Archbishop
of Canberra-Goulburn, 1978-1983.)
- Patrick Laurence Murphy,
1977-1986. (Appointed Bishop
of Broken Bay 1986. Retired)
- Bede Vincent Heather,
1979-1986. (Appointed Bishop
of Parramatta 1986. Retired)
- John Edward Heaps, 1981-1992.
Retired 1992. Died 2004.
- Peter William Ingham, 1993-2001. (Appointed
Bishop of
Wollongong 2001.)
- Geoffrey James Robinson,
1984-2004. Retired.
- David Cremin, 1974-2005. Retired.
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