Daniel Murphy (bishop)

Daniel Murphy (15 June 1815 – 29 December 1907) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart.[1]

Murphy was born in Belmont, County Cork, Ireland, the son of Michael Murphy and his wife Mary, née McSweeney.[1]

Murphy was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, 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.[2] Subsequently, he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Fennelly, successor to Archbishop Carew, translated to Calcutta, and as consecrated by the Most Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Cork, in October 1846, in the parish church of Kinsale, of which his brother was parish priest and vicar foraine. In 1848 Dr. Murphy was appointed bishop to the newly erected Vicariate Apostolic of Hyderabad, Deccan, India. During the Mutiny in 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.[2]

Return to Tasmania

In consequence of failing health, Pope Pius IX transferred him from India to Tasmania in 1865, appointing him Bishop of Hobart in succession to Dr. Robert Willson.[2] He arrived at Hobart in April 1866. He attended the Ecumenical council at the Vatican 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 Moran invested him with the Pallium on 12 May 1889.[2]

The Astronomer

Murphy was also an astronomer, submitting a paper on solar phenomena and their effects to the Australasian Science Association Congress in Hobart in 1892.[1] Murphy died in Low Head, Tasmania, Australia, on 29 December 1907 and buried in Hobart.[1]

gollark: What do you mean you "perceive" time as discrete? You mean you *arbitrarily think so*, or what?
gollark: Quite a lot.
gollark: > The Planck time is the unique combination of the gravitational constant G, the special-relativistic constant c, and the quantum constant ħ, to produce a constant with dimension of time. Because the Planck time comes from dimensional analysis, which ignores constant factors, there is no reason to believe that exactly one unit of Planck time has any special physical significance. Rather, the Planck time represents a rough time scale at which quantum gravitational effects are likely to become important. This essentially means that while smaller units of time can exist, they are so small their effect on our existence is negligible. The nature of those effects, and the exact time scale at which they would occur, would need to be derived from an actual theory of quantum gravity.
gollark: Oh, no, never mind, that's not it.
gollark: ... you mean the Planck time or something?

References
  1. "Murphy, Daniel (1815–1907)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 17 January 2014 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  2. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Murphy, The Most Rev. Daniel" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.


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