Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig - - St. Brigid at St Brigid's Catholic Church - Red Hill - QLD - Australia
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Memorial in St Brigid's Church, a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church located at 78 Musgrave Road, Red Hill, City of Brisbane.
Waymark Code: WMX14M
Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 11/11/2017
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Statue of Archbishop James Duhig who was the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane for 48 years. The statue was unveiled on the centenary of St Brigid`s Church where Archbishop Duhig performed the dedication ceremony on August 9th 1914.
Sir James Duhig KCMG (1873 – 1965) was an Irish-born Australian Roman Catholic religious leader. He was the Archbishop of Brisbane for 48 years from 1917 until his death in 1965. At the time of his death he was the longest-serving bishop in the Catholic Church (1905–1965).
On 10 December 1905, he became the youngest bishop in the Catholic Church when he was ordained Bishop of Rockhampton. On 26 February 1912, he was transferred to Brisbane, where he became the Co-Adjutor Archbishop to the elderly Archbishop Robert Dunne. On 13 January 1917 he succeeded as Archbishop of Brisbane, a position he held for 48 years until his death in 1965.
In the early years of Duhig's ecclesiastical provinciate, his archdiocese took on an extensive building program, including churches, hospitals and schools, erecting more than 400 buildings, earning him the nickname of "Duhig the Builder".These buildings are a prominent feature of the Brisbane landscape to this day.
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