Gladstone, QLD - Star of the Sea Catholic
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Address: 181 Goondoon Street, Gladstone, Queensland, 4680
Architect: Unknown
Traditional Owners: Bailai, Gurang, Gooreng Gooreng, Taribelang Bunda people
Last Updated: 15/08/2022
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History and Architecture:
Dean Murlay was appointed as the first Parish Priest of Gladstone and arrived on April 24, 1901 at the age of 69. He had to sell the Church soon after arriving to make way for the railway and with the proceeds he purchased land closer to the centre of town for £300. That was in July. He had a church/school constructed on the land and it was opened and blessed by Bishop Higgins on January 19, 1902.
Clergy:
This list may not contain every serving cleric, past or present, for this church.
Further submissions welcomed.
| Years | Name | Annotation | D.o.B | D.o.D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 - 1908 | Dean Charles Frederick Murlay | 1908 | ||
| 1901 - 1902 | Father Augustin Ginistry | |||
| 1902 - 1903 | Father Jean Baptiste Coue | 1904 | ||
| 1904 - 1905 | Father Emile Talon | 1919 | ||
| 1907 - 1917 | Father Victor Thierry | 1944 | ||
| 1908 - 1911 | Father Eugene Englert | 1913 | ||
| 1910 - 1910 | Father Leopold Carcenac | 1965 | ||
| 1913 - 1913 | Father Leopold Carcenac | 1965 | ||
| 1914 - 1919 | Father Julien Huault | 1941 | ||
| 1918 - 1919 | Father Alphonsus Ginsbach | |||
| 1919 - 1920 | Father Karl Flaus | |||
| 1920 - 1921 | Father James Monaghan | |||
| 1921 - 1929 | Father Aloysius Jeffcott | |||
| 1921 - 1923 | Father Francis Dupont | |||
| 1922 - 1926 | Father Leopold Carcenac | 1965 | ||
| 1929 - 1936 | Father Michael McKenna | 1974 | ||
| 1930 - 1931 | Father Thomas McBreen | |||
| 1932 - 1933 | Father Lawrence Kelledy | 1935 | ||
| 1935 - 1938 | Father John McSherry | 1963 | ||
| 1936 - 1943 | Father Dalton J. Campbell | |||
| 1938 - 1940 | Father Mark Devoy | 1969 | ||
| 1940 - 1954 | Father John McSherry | 1963 | ||
| 1943 - 1946 | Father Alfred Cullen | |||
| 1944 - 1945 | Father John Gorinski | |||
| 1945 - 1947 | Father John Joseph Hyde | |||
| 1945 - | Father Joseph Lawrence Smith | |||
| 1949 - 1951 | Father Joseph Lawrence Smith | |||
| 1947 - | Father Edwin Jones | |||
| 1948 - 1949 | Father Kevin Muldoon | |||
| 1949 - | Father Vincent James Mills | 1993 | ||
| 1949 - 1950 | Father W. K. Glover | 1998 | ||
| 1950 - 1953 | Father Lawrence Michael O'Halloran | |||
| 1951 - 1956 | Father Mark Devoy | |||
| 1953 - 1958 | Father Henry Smith | |||
| 1954 - 1955 | Father John Ewart Dinan | 1965 | ||
| 1955 - | Father Paul Aloysius Glynn OAM | |||
| 1955 - 1957 | Father John B. Cameron | |||
| 1956 - | Father Denis Donovan | 1989 | ||
| 1956 - 1958 | Father Claude Palmer | |||
| 1956 - 1960 | Father Lionel Marsden | 1971 | ||
| 1958 - 1959 | Father W. K. Glover | 1998 | ||
| 1959 - | Father John Francis Smith | |||
| 1959 - 1964 | Father Denis Donovan | |||
| 1961 - 1964 | Father John Taranto | 1998 | ||
| 1962 - 1963 | Father Louis Molloy | |||
| 1964 - 1969 | Father John Francis Smith | |||
| 1965 - 1968 | Father John Vincent Walsh | |||
| 1965 - 1970 | Father Bruce Busby | |||
| 1968 - 1972 | Father Vincent James Mills | |||
| 1970 - 1972 | Father Leonard Cecil Bourne | |||
| 1970 - 1980 | Father John Taranto | |||
| 1971 - | Father John McMillan | |||
| 1972 - | Father Michael Damien Whelan | |||
| 1972 - 1973 | Father Joe Lopez | |||
| 1972 - 1976 | Father Bruce Busby | |||
| 1972 - 1979 | Father Kevin Muldoon | |||
| 1973 - 1986 | Father Joseph Leslie Heath | |||
| 1975 - | Father Thomas John Ryan | |||
| 1976 - 1978 | Father John Francis Smith | |||
| 1977 - 1978 | Father Thomas Paul Mahony | |||
| 1977 - | Father Kevin Johnson | Diocesan Priest | ||
| 1978 - | Father Philip John Soulsby | |||
| 1978 - 1979 | Father Ronald Patrick Josephs | |||
| 1979 - 1984 | Father Ronald Nissen | |||
| 1980 - 1982 | Father Peter McMurrich | |||
| 1980 - 1983 | Father Michael Carroll | |||
| 1980 - | Father Robert Hollow | |||
| 1980 - 1986 | Father John Girdauskas | Seminarian, Deacon and then Priest | ||
| 1981 - | Father Michael Rego | |||
| 1982 - 1983 | Father Greg Barnes | Diocesan Priest | ||
| 1983 - 1984 | Father Thomas Paul Mahony | |||
| 1984 - 1987 | Father Terance Joseph McCosker | |||
| 1985 - 1986 | Father Luke Holohan | |||
| 1985 - 1990 | Father Tom Fulcher | |||
| 1986 - 1998 | Father John Taranto | |||
| 1987 - | Father Michael Carroll | |||
| 1989 - 1993 | Father James Cornelius Bishop | |||
| 1990 - 1998 | Father John Burns | |||
| 1991 - 1994 | Father Seamus McMahon | |||
| 1994 - 1997 | Father John Begg | |||
| 1995 - 1996 | Father Tony Kennedy | |||
| 1997 - | Father Gregory Laurence Ferguson | |||
| 1998 - 2000 | Father Neville Francis Bryne | |||
| 1999 - 2000 | Father Michael Wallace Cruickshank | |||
| 2000 - 2001 | Father Tony Kennedy | |||
| 2000 - | Father Barry Leech | |||
| 2019 - | Father Kevin Redmond |
Organ:
No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.
Source:
1. Gladstone Parish Celebrates 100 years of Ministery by the Marist Fathers. LC 282.99435 ONE
2. Deceased Clergy in Australia, 1788-present