Daniel Mannix
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The Most Reverend Daniel Mannix |
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| 3rd Archbishop of Melbourne | |
Statue of Mannix outside St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
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| Diocese | Melbourne |
| Installed | 6 May 1917 |
| Term ended | 6 November 1963 |
| Predecessor | Thomas Carr |
| Successor | Justin Simonds |
| Other posts | Bishop of the Armed Services (1917–1963) |
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| Ordination | 9 June 1890 |
| Consecration | 6 October 1912 |
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| Born |
4 March 1864 Charleville, Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 6 November 1963 (aged 99) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Buried | St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Cleric |
| Alma mater | St Patrick's College, Maynooth |
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Styles of Daniel Mannix |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Grace |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
Daniel Patrick Mannix (4 March 1864 – 6 November 1963) was an Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop. Mannix was the Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years and one of the most influential public figures in 20th-century Australia.
Born near Charleville in County Cork, Ireland, Mannix was the son of a tenant farmer, Timothy Mannix, and his wife Ellen, née Cagney. He was educated at Congregation of Christian Brothers schools and at St Patrick's College, Maynooth seminary, where he was ordained as a priest in 1890.
Mannix was president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, the Irish national seminary, from 13 October 1903 to 10 August 1912 when he was succeeded by the Rt Reverend John F. Hogan. During his presidency he was widely criticised for welcoming King Edward VII on a visit to Maynooth (it was alleged that the reception room was hung with the king's racing colours). Contrasts were drawn between this welcome for the notoriously adulterous king and the Catholic bishops' role in supporting the deposition of Charles Stewart Parnell as Irish nationalist leader because of his affair with Katharine O'Shea.
Mannix was also heavily involved in the controversy surrounding the dismissal of Father Michael O'Hickey as Professor of Irish after O'Hickey publicly attacked those members of the Senate of the National University of Ireland who opposed making Irish a compulsory subject for matriculation and insinuated that the senators (who included several bishops) had sinned grievously by so doing and resembled those MPs who were bribed to pass the Act of Union.
On 1 July 1912, Mannix was consecrated titular Bishop of Pharsalia and coadjutor bishop to Archbishop Carr of Melbourne at Maynooth College Chapel. Mannix was not consulted about his appointment. Melbourne was one of the large centres of Irish emigration, where the Roman Catholic Church was almost entirely Irish. In Australia at this time, the Irish Catholics were commonly treated with disdain by the English and Scottish majority (who were mostly Anglicans and Presbyterians respectively) and also as potentially disloyal. Mannix was regarded with suspicion from the start and his militant advocacy on behalf of a separate Roman Catholic school system, in defiance of the general acceptance of a secular school system, made him immediately a figure of controversy.
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