Edward Cardinal Clancy
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Edward Bede Clancy AC (born 13 December 1923) is an Australian ecclesiastic. He was the seventh Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988.
Born in Lithgow, he was ordained priest in 1949, the same year as Australian Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy. On 19 January 1974, he was ordained titular Bishop of Árd Carna, and on 24 November 1978, appointed Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn). On 12 February 1983 he was appointed Archbishop of Sydney, and on 28 June 1988 he was elevated to Cardinal.
Major work on St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney took place under his episcopacy. In 1999 a substantial new pipe organ was built by Messieurs Letourneau of Montreal, Quebec. In the year 2000 the spires of the Cathedral were finally completed.
It was also under his watch that the tridentine neo-Gothic diocesan seminary of St Patrick at Manly (founded by Cardinal Patrick Moran in 1889) was closed, and a new modern seminary, called "Good Shepherd Seminary" built to replace it.
After his retirement as Archbishop, in the period from 21 October (when George Pell was made Cardinal) until his own 80th birthday on 13 December 2003, there were three Australian Cardinal electors (had a Papal election become necessary) including George Pell and Edward Idris Cassidy.
[edit] External links
- Edward Cardinal Clancy on Catholic hierarchy.org
- Edward Cardinal Clancy on "What the Cardinals believe"
- Cardinal Clancy bio on the Sydney Archdiocesan website
- article on the closure of St Patrick's Seminary
- the new Sydney based Seminary of the Good Shepherd
| Preceded by: James Freeman |
7th Catholic Archbishop of Sydney 1983 – 2001 |
Succeeded by: George Pell |
| Roman Catholic Archbishops of Sydney |  |
|---|---|
| Polding | Vaughan | Moran | Kelly | Gilroy | Freeman | Clancy | Pell | |
