Patrick Clune

Patrick Joseph Clune, DD CSsR, (6 January 1864 in Ruan, County Clare, Ireland – 24 May 1935 in Perth, Western Australia), an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth and first Archbishop of Perth. Clune served continuously in these roles from 1910 to 1935. Clune was educated in Ruan and at St Flannan's College in Ennis. In 1879 he entered the Catholic Missionary College in Dublin to study for the priesthood. He was ordained in 1886, aged 22. His first appointment was to St Patrick's College, Goulburn in New South Wales. He professed vows as a member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) on 13 September 1894. He was consecrated by Cardinal Patrick Moran on 17 March 1911. In...