Patrick francis moran biography of christopher

​MORAN, PATRICK FRANCIS (1830–1911), cardinal archbishop of Sydney, born at Leighlinbridge, co. Carlow, Ireland, on 16 Sept.

1830, was the son of Patrick Moran by his wife Alicia, sister of Cardinal Chillen [q. v.], whom at the age of twelve he accompanied to Rome.

Patrick francis moran biography of christopher

There educated at the Irish College of St. Agatha, he gave early proof of capacity, was ordained priest by special dispensation as to age on 19 March 1853, and Wiis from 1856 to 1866 vice-principal under Monsignor Kirby of the College of St.

Agatha, and professor of Hebrew at the College of Propaganda. Enjoying a right of access to the Vatican archives, he made a special study of Celtic ecclesiastical history, and published at Dublin 'An Historical Sketch of the Persecution suffered by the Catholics of Ireland under Cromwell and the Puritans' (1862; new edit.

1884), 'Essays on the Origin, Doctrines, and Discipline of the Early Irish Church