Raymond Conway Benjamin (24 February 1925 – 7 March 2016) was a
Roman Catholic
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bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, Benjamin served as bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Townsville
The Diocese of Townsville is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Australia. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Brisbane. Erected in 1930, the Diocese o ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia from 1984 until his retirement in 2000.
At the time of the death in office of his successor,
Bishop Michael Putney, and the subsequent vacancy in the Diocese of Townsville, Bishop Benjamin was still living.
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1925 births
2016 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops of Townsville
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