MORAN, Patrick Francis (CARDINAL), Australian Roman Catholic prelate: b. Leighlin Bridge, Carlow, Ireland, 16 Sept. 1830; d. Sydney, Australia, 16 Aug. 1911. He received his education at the Irish College, the Gregor ian University and the Propaganda, Rome, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1853. He was successively vice-rector of the Irish Col lege, Rome; professor of Hebrew at the Propa ganda; vice-rector of the Scots College, and secretary to Paul, Cardinal Cullen, archbishop of Dublin. In 1872 he was consecrated titular bishop of Olba and made coadjutor to the bishop of Ossory. He succeeded to the diocese of Ossory in the same year and remained there until 1884, when he was appointed archbishop of Sydney, Australia. In 1885 he was made car dinal of the Roman Church with the titular church of Saint Susanna. He convened and presided at three plenary synods of the Church of Australia in 1885, 1895 and 1905, and also the Catholic congresses held at Sydney in 1900 and 1909. He was the author of of
the Venerable Oliver Plunkett' (1861); 'Essays on the Early Irish Church' (1864): (History of the Archbishops of Dublin' (1864); 'History of the Persecutions of the Irish Catholics' (1865) ;
Sancti Brendani' (1872) ;
Hibernicum' (1873);