Daniel Mannix

Daniel Patrick Mannix ( born March 4, 1864 in Deerpark, Rathluirc, County Cork, Ireland, † November 2, 1963 in Melbourne) was an Australian Catholic theologian of Irish descent, and about 50 years Archbishop of Melbourne.

Biography

After attending a seminary in 1890 his ordination to the priesthood. After more than twenty years as a priest he was on 1 July 1912 coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Melbourne and at the same time appointed Titular Archbishop per hac vice of Pharsalus.

This was followed by on May 6, 1917 his appointment as Archbishop of Melbourne and therefore the successor of Thomas Joseph Carr. This office he held nearly fifty years until his death. He was also a military Bishop of Australia.

In these roles, he strongly advocates for the rights of Catholics in Australian society, especially for the state support of denominational schools. After the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916 he became an outspoken supporter of Irish Home Rule, the autonomous self-government of Ireland.

He was also the 1916/17 opponent of the claim by Prime Minister Billy Hughes after the introduction of compulsory military service at the height of the First World War. Its position coincided with an emotional identification with the working class, where he enjoyed great prestige until his death. The upper classes demanded in this period his deportation.

After he was celebrated in 1920 in the United States, he returned to Europe, where, however, was refused by the British government to enter Ireland. During his absence he was doing location of the Chancellors of the Archdiocese, John Barry, who was also administrator of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, and later represented by his former private secretary John Joseph Lonergan.

His social views that included a dislike of capitalism, took him for several years in the vicinity of the ideas of the Australian Labor Party (ALP ). However, he looked increasingly communism as a greater threat, so he mid-1950s supported the Democratic Labor Party (DLP ) to the split in the ALP.

His involvement of the laity and his combative nature made ​​him for half a century to become an influential force in Australian society and politics.

External links and sources

• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Biography ( Genaology.com )
• Apostolic Succession
• CHAMBERS Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1000, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2

• Titular Archbishop
• Roman Catholic Bishop ( 20th Century)
• Roman Catholic theologian ( 20th century)
• Person (Melbourne )
• Irishman
• Australian
• Born in 1864
• Died in 1963
• Man