Kyabram, VIC - St Augustine's Catholic

Year Built: 1910

Denomination: Roman Catholic

Saint: Augustine

Address: 63 Church Street, Kyabram, Victoria, 3620

Architect: A.A. Fritsch

Traditional Owners: Yorta Yorta people

Last Updated: 19/03/2024

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History and Architecture:

The first Church was opened in 1889 however it was moved in 1903 to Church Street site.

The foundation stone was placed on Sunday 3 July 1910 by Monsignor Sylvester Barry, Vicar-General of the Sandhurst Diocese, in place of Bishop Reville, who was then in hospital overseas. Fr. Mulqueen, who had been parish priest ever since the Kyabram parish was created eight years earlier, welcomed Monsignor Barry. Fr. Malone.

The Architect of the current Church was A.A. Fristch.

The parish includes neighbouring towns of Tongala where St Patrick’s Church was built in 1909 and Merrigum, site of St Sebastian’s church which opened in 1903.

Clergy:

These names are now in the Database and can be searched individually.

Years Name Annotation D.o.B D.o.D
1886 - 1891 Father Joseph A. Coleman PP
1886 - 1891 Father Joseph Aloysius Knowles 1930
1886 - 1899 Father Thomas Alphonsus Meredith 1938
1887 - 1889 Father Laurence Funchion 1930
1887 - 1889 Father Vincent Landy
1888 - Father Henry Allen 1898
1891 - 1925 Father William Byrne
1892 - 1898 Father James Murray
1903 - 1908 Father John Stokes 1945
1903 - 1910 Father Thomas Mulqueen PP 1910
1908 - 1911 Father Edward Malone PP 1911 1911
1911 - 1923 Father John Stokes PP 1945
1911 - 1912 Father Thomas Hoyne 1966
1911 - 1923 Father Patrick Luke Maddock
1923 - 1927 Father Vincent Michael Foley 1951
1923 - 1930 Father Kieran Laurence Griffin PP
1924 - 1930 Father Finbar O'Hea 1933
1926 - 1927 Father John Stanislaus Roche 1973
1927 - 1930 Father Gabriel Lyons
1931 - 1936 Father Patrick Luke Maddock PP 1965
1936 - 1937 Father Patrick Augustine Doyle
1937 - 1942 Father James Augustine Grace PP 1992
1937 - 1941 Father Thomas James Downey 1957
1940 - 1945 Father Declan William Treacy 1995
1943 - Father James Ignatius Kelly
1944 - 1951 Father Joseph Phelan PP 44 - 48 1973
1945 - 1955 Father Patrick Augustine Stokes PP 54 - 55
1948 - 1952 Father Finian Patrick Twomey 1998
1952 - 1955 Father Sean Kevin Anderson
1956 - 1960 Father John Laurence Meagher PP 1982
1958 - 1965 Father Phillip Patrick Kehoe 2003
1960 - 1967 Father James Brendan Kavanagh PP
1963 - Father John Senan Doran
1965 - 1970 Father William Bernard Connolly 2006
1967 - 1970 Father Thomas Leonard Woods PP 1991
1971 - 1975 Father William Joseph Wallace PP
1971 - 1978 Father Maurice Albert O'Connor PP 75 - 78
1973 - 1974 Father John Berchmans Power
1975 - Father Daniel Gregory O'Leary
1975 - Father Patrick Finian Duggan
1976 - Father John Anthony McGlone
1977 - 1981 Father John Cathage Clarkson 79 - 81
1978 - 1984 Father Brian Patrick Buckley PP 81 - 83
1979 - 1981 Father Patrick G. Love
1982 - Father Joseph Coleman Walsh
1981 - 1982 Father Peter Desmond Rohan
1983 - 1987 Father James Edward Bolton
1984 - 1986 Father Denis Kevin Kieran O'Shea
1985 - 1987 Father John Louis Sullivan PP 87
1987 - 1999 Father Paul Donal Dempsey PP 88 - 89
1987 - 1990 Father David John Murrin
1988 - 1989 Father Peter Alan Jones
1999 - 2000 Father John Augustine O'Sullivan
1999 - 2006 Father David Martin Austin PP
2003 - 2004 Father Patrick Stephen Bourke
2010 - Father Michael Morley
2022 - Father John Paul Pasala

Organ:

No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.

Source:

1. Kyabram Catholic Heritage 282.9454 K98S
2. Deceased Clergy in Australia, 1788-present