Archbishop bede polding biography sample
Archbishop bede polding biography sample template.
The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Polding, Most Rev. John Bede
Polding, Most Rev. John Bede, D.D., first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, N.S.W., and Metropolitan of Australia and Tasmania, was born in Liverpool, England, on Nov.
18th, 1794, and educated at St. Gregory's College, Downside.
Archbishop bede polding biography sample
In July 1810 he took the habit of the Benedictine order, made his religious profession a year later, and was ordained priest in March 1819. Up to 1834 Australia—so far as the Roman Catholic Church was concerned—was under the episcopal supervision of the Bishop of Mauritius, who appointed the late Dr.
Ullathorne his Vicar-General. In that year it was decided to create a separate organisation for the administration of the Antipodean Church, and at its head it was concluded to place Father Polding, who was made Bishop of Hiero-Cæsarea in partibus, with the local title of Vicar Apostolic of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land.
This was carried out by a bull of Pope Gr