Daniel Murphy (15 June 1815 – 29 December 1907) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart,

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Life and career

Murphy was born in Belmont,

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, Ireland, the son of Michael Murphy and his wife Mary, ''née'' McSweeney. Murphy was educated at

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, where he was ordained priest in 1838, and at once volunteered for the foreign missions in India, proceeding with Bishop Carew to Madras in 1845. Subsequently, he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Fennelly, successor to Archbishop Carew, translated to Calcutta, and was consecrated by John Murphy, Bishop of Cork, in October 1846, in the parish church of Kinsale. In 1848, Daniel Murphy was appointed bishop to the newly erected Vicariate Apostolic of

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, Deccan, India. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he manifested great prudence, and secured from the Nizam several stands of arms for the boys of the Catholic College, who were drilled in expectation of a mutiny arising in the State. In consequence of ill health,

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transferred him from India to Tasmania in 1865, appointing him Bishop of Hobart in succession to Robert Willson. Murphy arrived in

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in April 1866. He attended the

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in 1869, and paid another visit to Rome from Hobart in 1882. In 1888, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of his priesthood, Hobart was erected into an archbishopric, and he became the first Metropolitan. Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran invested him with the

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on 12 May 1889, and Murphy gave Moran an antique parchment scroll of the

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that he had purchased during a visit to the

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. The scroll is currently held by the Veech Library at the Catholic Institute of Sydney. Murphy was also an astronomer, submitting a paper on solar phenomena and their effects to the Australasian Science Association Congress in Hobart in 1892. Murphy died in

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, Australia, on 29 December 1907 and was buried in Hobart.

References

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