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Show Death of Bishop Murray. The death of the Most Rev. James Murray, Bishop of Maitland, New South Wales, removes the senior prelate of the Australian episcopate. Dr. Murray was born in Dublin in 1828, and was eighty-one years of age at the time of his decease, forty-four of which he was Bishop. He made his studies at the Pontifical Urban college of Propaganda in POme, and was ordained a priest in 1852. Almost immediately on his return to Dublin he was appointed secretary to Archbishop Cullen, who had been translated from Armagh on May 1. 1332. For thirteen years Dr. Murny cemtin- . ued as secretary in the Archbishop's' house, and he was ten selected by the Propaganda for the Bishopric of Maitland, Mait-land, for which See he was consecrated in 1865. His successor to Archbishop Cullen was the present Cardinal Moran. From 1865 to 1897 Bishop Murray labored zealously in his vast diocese, but in the latter year he obtained a coadjutor in the person of Right Rev. Patrick V. Dwyer, the first native Australian Bishop. . |
