Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie

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Diocese of Port Pirie

Dioecesis Portus Piriensis
Location
Country Australia
Territory Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, Flinders Ranges, Nullarbor Plain, and Mid and Far North regions of South Australia
Ecclesiastical province Adelaide
Coordinates 33°10′46″S138°00′29″E / 33.17944°S 138.00806°E / -33.17944; 138.00806
Statistics
Area978,823 km2 (377,926 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2004)
  • Decrease2.svg 166,713
  • Decrease2.svg 28,653 (Decrease2.svg 17.2%)
ParishesSteady2.svg 23
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established10 May 1887 as Diocese of Port Augusta
7 June 1951 as Diocese of Port Pirie
Cathedral St Mark's Cathedral, Port Pirie
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop-Elect Karol Kulczycki SDS
Bishops emeritus Gregory O'Kelly SJ
Map
Bistum Port Pirie.svg
Website
http://www.pp.catholic.org.au

The Diocese of Port Pirie is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Australia. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Adelaide, erected in 1887 covering the Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, Flinders Ranges, Nullarbor Plain, and Mid and Far North regions of South Australia, Australia.

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History

The Diocese of Port Augusta was canonically erected by Pope Leo XIII on 10 May 1887, the same day the pope elevated the See of Adelaide to a metropolitan archdiocese and placed the new diocese in its province. On 5 August 1951 the seat of the diocese was moved from Port Augusta to Port Pirie, with the name of the diocese being also changed. [1]

Boundaries

Bishops

The following men have been Bishops of Port Pirie or any of its precursor titles: [2]

OrderNameTitleDate enthronedReign endedTerm of officeReason for term end
1 John O'Reily †Bishop of Port Augusta13 May 18875 January 18957 years, 237 daysElevated as Archbishop of Adelaide
2 James Maher †Bishop of Port Augusta10 January 189620 December 19059 years, 344 daysDied in office
3 John Henry Norton †Bishop of Port Augusta18 August 190622 March 192316 years, 216 daysDied in office
4 Andrew Killian †Bishop of Port Augusta26 February 192411 July 19339 years, 135 daysElevated as Coadjutor Archbishop of Adelaide
5 Norman Thomas Gilroy †Bishop of Port Augusta10 December 19341 July 19372 years, 203 daysElevated as Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney
6 John Joseph Lonergan †Bishop-Elect of Port Augusta8 January 193814 July 1938187 daysDied prior to being ordained as Bishop
7 Thomas Absolem McCabe †Bishop of Port Augusta13 December 193815 November 195112 years, 337 daysAppointed as Bishop of Wollongong
8 Bryan Gallagher †Bishop of Port Pirie13 March 195211 August 198028 years, 151 daysResigned and appointed Bishop Emeritus of Port Pirie
9 Francis Peter de Campo †Bishop of Port Pirie11 August 198023 April 199817 years, 255 daysDied in office
10 Daniel Eugene Hurley Bishop of Port Pirie27 November 19983 July 20078 years, 218 daysAppointed as Bishop of Darwin
11 Gregory O'Kelly SJ Bishop of Port Pirie15 April 20091 August 202016 years, 39 daysRetired
12 Karol Kulczycki SDS Bishop of Port Pirie

Coadjutor bishop

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

Sexual abuse cases

The Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that Port Pirie was the third-worst diocese in the country, with 14.1% of its priests accused of abuse. [3]

In 2007, Father Charles Barnett was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia where he had fled in 1995, and extradited to Australia. [4] Barnett pled guilty in 2009 to three child sex charges for events between 1977 and 1985 at Crystal Brook and Port Pirie. [5] He was sentenced for a fourth crime occurring in 1994 and was rearrested in for other crimes after his release. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Diocese of Port Augusta". The Southern Cross . Adelaide. 10 August 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 14 October 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Diocese of Port Pirie". The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church. 20 February 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2007.
  3. ↑ "Port Pirie diocese on Catholic priest abuse shame list". Adelaide Now. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Thompson, Geoff (27 February 2008). "Priest arrested in Jakarta over child sex charges". ABC News. Archived from the original on 10 April 2025. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  5. ↑ "Extradited ex-priest admits child sex". ABC News. Australia. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  6. ↑ Opie, Rebecca (20 February 2018). "Former Catholic priest Charles Alfred Barnett apologises to sexual abuse victims in court". ABC News. Archived from the original on 1 October 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
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