Eric D'Arcy

Joseph Eric D' Arcy ( born April 25, 1924 in Melbourne, † December 12, 2005 ibid ) was Roman Catholic bishop and 1988-1999 head of the Catholic Church in Tasmania.

Life

D' Arcy studied at Corpus Christi College, Werribee and was finally consecrated on 24 July 1949 for the priest. He then studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne, at Oxford University and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was the first australischstämmige graduate who received his doctorate from Oxford University. In 1962 he returned to Australia and taught at Melbourne University philosophy for the next nearly 20 years.

On April 25, 1981, he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Sale. As D' Arcy was appointed Archbishop of Hobart on October 24, 1988, Jeremiah Joseph Coffey succeeded him as Bishop of Sale. On July 26, 1999 D' Arcy resigned from his post for reasons of age. He spent his life in Melbourne.

Joseph Eric D' Arcy died on the morning of the 12th December 2005 at St. Vincent 's Hospital in Melbourne, where he was undergoing treatment for pneumonia. He was buried on December 19 in Saint Mary's Cathedral in Hobart.