Andrew Killian

Andrew Killian ( born October 26, 1872 in Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, † June 28, 1939 ) was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Life

Andrew Killian was born in October 1872 in Edenderry, County Offaly, son of Nicholas Killian and his wife Eliza Josephine (nee Ryan ). Killian attended Mungret Jesuit College in Limerick and the St Patrick 's College in Carlow. At the Royal University of Ireland in 1894, he received his Bachelor of Arts. On June 4, 1898 he was ordained a priest. In the same year traveled to Australia Killian.

The first task he was appointed to an assistant priest in the town of Bourke in western New South Wales. In 1907 he visited Ireland. 1908 Killian was transferred to Broken Hill. In the following years, he held various posts and offices, among other things, he was a parish pastor, administrator of the Cathedral, Dean and Vicar General. In 1919 he received the honorary title of Papal Papal honor prelate.

Due to his administrative talent, which he had placed in Broken Hill demonstrate Killian was determined in 1924 as Bishop of Port Augusta and received on 15 June 1924, the episcopal consecration in the Pro-Cathedral in Peterborough. In 1926 he took part in Chicago on Eucharistic Congress. Components of Killians trips were, among others, an audience with Pope Pius XI. in Rome, and a re-visit in Ireland. In July 1933 he became the Koadjutorerzbischof of Adelaide, as well as Titular Archbishop of Ratiaria, and was appointed Archbishop Robert William Spence to the side. When he died in 1934, Killian became the new archbishop.

1938 Killian fell ill with cancer (medicine). He died on June 28, 1939 at Mercy Hospital in East Melbourne and was buried in the West Terrace cemetery in Adelaide.