Norman Thomas Gilroy
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy ( born January 22, 1896 in Sydney, Australia, † October 21, 1977 ibid ) was Archbishop of Sydney.
Life
Norman Thomas Gilroy was born in January 1896 in Sydney, the second of six children of William James Gilroy and his wife Catherine (nee Slattery ). At the age of 13 he left school to work as an errand boy in the Postmaster - General's Department.
The following year he passed the examination for telegraph and was finally added in 1912 to Bourke. When World War II broke out, the Australian Imperial Force Gilroy wanted to join, but what he prohibited his parents. Instead, he was a telegraph operator in the transport service, and as such took part in the Battle of Gallipoli. During a six-week stay in England, he met Father Davidson, with whom he formed a close friendship soon, the lasting influence Gilroy.
After his return to Australia he was there again as a telegrapher in Lismore, New South Wales, works. There he came into contact with Terence Bernard McGuire, the administrator of the cathedral. McGuire sought to promote the australischstämmigen clergy of the Roman Catholic Church and persuaded Gilroy to become a priest. In 1917, Gilroy attended St Columba 's Seminary and the Foreign Missionary College in Springwood to begin his studies on this question. From 1919 to 1924 he attended the Pontifical Athenaeum " De Propaganda Fide " in Rome. There he was 1924 to Dr. theol. doctorate.
On 24 December 1923 he received the sacrament of Holy Orders by Wilhelmus Marinus Cardinal van Rossum and worked from 1924 to 1931 for the Apostolic Delegation of the Vatican in Australia. From 1931 to 1935 he was the personal secretary to the bishop of Lismore, John Carroll, as well as diocesan chancellor.
1934 Pope Pius XI appointed him. Bishop of Port Augusta. He received his episcopal consecration on March 17, 1935 Archbishop Filippo Bernardini in the St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. Co-consecrators were Bishop John Joseph Carroll and Archbishop Terence Bernard McGuire. In 1937 he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Cypsela and Koadjutorerzbischof of the Archdiocese of Sydney. On March 8, 1940, Norman Thomas Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney. On February 18, 1946 it took Pope Pius XII. as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santi Quattro Coronati in the College of Cardinals. Gilroy was the first australischstämmige in this position.
Cardinal Gilroy was a participant at the conclave in 1958, the conclave in 1963.
In the years 1962 to 1965, he took part in the Second Vatican Council, in the course of which he knew as well as administrative tasks Bureau. The management of the Archdiocese of Sydney in 1971 he laid down.
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy died on 21 October 1977 in Sydney and was buried in the local cathedral.