William Edward Murray

William Edward Murray AM ( born February 16, 1920 in Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia, † April 21, 2013 in Randwick ) was Bishop of Wollongong.

Life

William Murray was educated at St. Columba Seminary in Springwood, New South Wales, and at De La Salle College, Marrickville, New South Wales. The Archbishop of Sydney, Norman Thomas Gilroy gave him on 21 July 1945 in the Saint Mary's Cathedral in Sydney ordination. Murray graduated from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, a study of international law; at the University of Sydney, he received his doctorate in social sciences.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on June 5, 1975 Bishop of Wollongong. The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal James Darcy Freeman gave him on 21 July 1975 in St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Wollongong episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Thomas Vincent Cahill, Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn and James Patrick Carroll, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney.

On 12 April 1996, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related. At the age of 93 years Murray died in a nursing home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Randwick, a suburb of Sydney.

In 1988 he was elected a member (AM ) of the Order of Australia appointed.