John Carroll (Australian bishop)

John Joseph Carroll DD (1865-1949) was an Irish born priest who served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore in Australia, for 39 years.

Carroll was born in Bresnor, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1865.[1] He was educated at Mount Melleray Abbey Seminary Co. Waterford, and St. Patrick's, Carlow Diocesan College(1886-1890),[2] and was ordained a priest on 31 May 1890, immediately going to Australia and serving in the Archdiocese of Sydney for 20 years.[3] He was consecrated as the second Bishop of Lismore by Cardinal Moran on 6 March 1910, succeeding another Irish man Bishop Jeremiah Doyle. The future Cardinal Norman Thomas Gilroy served Bishop Carroll as his secretary from 1930 to 1934.

Carroll invited the Marist Fathers from New Zealand to build and staff a college for boys, which was opened in 1931 and named after Saint John the Evangelist.[4] Initially an agricultural college, it is now a secondary school.

Bishop Carroll died in Brisbane, while still in office, in 1949.

References
  1. Bishop John Carroll Catholic Heirarchy
  2. The Carlow Connection: The Contribution of Irish Seminarians in 19th Century Australia By Garaty, Janice, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
  3. Death of Bishop Carroll The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel : the official organ of the diocese of Maitland.Vol. XVII No. 9 (1 June 1949)
  4. Bishop John Carroll St. Johns College, Woodlawn


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