CONSECRATION OF BISHOP MURRAY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 12, 22 July 1898, Page 15

CONSECRATION OF BISHOP MURRAY.

Is our last issue we gave a brief account of the consecration of the Right Rev. Prior Murray, 0.5.A., as Bishop of Issus and Vicar-Apostolic of Northern Queensland, which took place at St. Kilian's Pro-Cathedral, Bendigo, Victoria, on July 3. Fuller particulars of the ceremony has reached us by the last Australian files, and from them we learn that the sacred function was of a most iuipo^ng nnd impressive character. There was an overflowing congregation. The consecrating prelate was the I.'ight Rey. Dr. Corbett, of Sale, assisted by the Rihgt Rev. Dr. Revillo. The consecration sermon was preached by the Superior of the RedemprorNt Fathers in Australia (the Very Rev. Thomas f/Farrall, O.SS.U.), who, in dwelling on the episc. p-d offi.e, paid a warm eulog'ium to the Augustinian Order, of which the newly consecrated prelate was a distinguished member. Tho episcopal throne was occupied by the Bishop of Sandhurst (Dr. Cranr), and amongst the visiting clergy were Derm McKenna, Adm., Melbourne ; the Rev. J. H. OConnell Prior Kelly, the Key. Isaac Moore, and the Rev. Fathers Casey and Qnicn of Melbourne, the Revs. W. O'Byrne, F. Meredith, and the Very Rev. Prior U'Hanlon. The episcopal ring was presented to the newly-created Bishop by the Right Rev. Dr. Reville, 0.5.A., the Coadjutor-Bishop, and another beautiful ring was also presented to him by his Lordship the Bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. Crane, O.S.A. Subsequently the clergy and a number of the laity met in the Bishop's palace, and after partaking of dinner, the toasts of ' The Pope ' and ' The Newly-consecrated Bishop' were proposed by Dr. Crane. The toast of • The officiating Bishop, the Right Rev. D. Corbett, 1 was also honoured. The Right Rev. Dr. Dominic Murray, 0.5.A., Vicar-Apostolic of Northern Queensland, in succession to Dr. Hutchinson, O S.i^who died lost October, is a native of Mullingar, and nephew of the late Most Rev. Dr. Carbery, Bishop of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, so well known in Cork and Limerick, where he laboured long and well previous to his elevation to the mitre. Dr. Murray was for some years a Christian Brother. He was ordained, however, to "to the Order of St. Augustine, receiving the habit in the Irish Novitiate at Orlagh, Rathfarnharni, County Dublin, in September, 1873 ; was ordained .in Rome in 1877, and sent soon after to St. Monica's, Hoxton Equare, London. In 1884 he went to Queensland, and after some three jot four years of unremitting toil, Father Murray waa sent to the monastery of Echuca, in the diocese of Sandhurst Victoria, founded by the Right Rev. Dr. Crane, O.S A., Bishop of the diocese, the first house of the Augustinian Order established in Australia. Father Coleman, so well and favourable known ia Drogheda, was its first prior. Shortly after Father Murray's arrival in Victoria, he was appointed Commissary Provincial, atod in the Chapter held in Dublin iv 1891, over which the General of the Order, Most Rev. Dr. Martinelli. now Papal Delegate to the United States, presided, he was elected prior, and re-elected at the Chapter of 181)5.