COADJUTOR TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 2, 10 May 1873, Page 11

COADJUTOR TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY.

The London ' Tablet ' has received by Telegraph intelligence^ of the., definite appointment to the Coadjutorshipof the Metropolitan See of Sydney, Australia, cum jure tttccessionU,- of the Very Rev. Roger Bede Vaughan, O.S .8 ,., Cathedral Prior of St. Michael's, in the diocese of Newport and Menevia ; and also of the Very Reverend Bernard O'Reilly, Canon of Liverpool and Priest of St. Vincent de Paul's, in that city' to the vacant See of Liverpool. Prior Vaughan is second ,son of Colonel Vaughan of Courtfield ; and was born at Courtfield, Jan. 9, 1S31 ; educated at Downside and Rome : became a monk of the English Congregation of St. Benedict at St. Gregory's Priory, near Both, in 1553 j was ordained priest by Cardinal Patrizi, hvSt. John Lateran's, iCjme, April 9, 1859 ; was chosen professor of mental philosophy, at St. Michael's the centre-house of studies of the Bern* dictiue order in England — in 1861 ; was elected Cathedral Prior by the Chapter of Newport and Menevia. July 9, 1862 ; re-elected in July, 1866 ; and elected a third time in July, 1870. Prior Vaughan. is well known to trie literary worl J outsi letho Catholic body by his learned and brilliant Life of St. Thomas Aquinas. Canon, O'Reilly was, we believe, born at or near Navan, in the diocese of Meath, in 1822 or 1823. He was educated at Ushaw, and his ordination was anticipated in consequence of the mortality amongst the clergy during the year of the great famine fever. He was first attached to theChurch of St. Patrick, Liverpool, where he soon after took the fever himself, and after remaining there some years, when another priest in charge of a mission died of fever, h.3 was appointed to the vacant church, which was a wojden shed, anl there built the large and splendid church aud schools of St. Vincent, opened in 1557, where he has remaned ever since. He his been a laborious and devote! priest and distinguished by his disinterestedness, his generosity, and hi» chaity to the poor. The life ot a h urd- working raissioner who goeson plodding his way and struggling against difficulties un ler which many would sink, is one not written in books, papers, or history, but faithfully recorded in heaven. He has been for many years actively engaged on committees for charitable institutions, and is much respected by every class in the community.