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Edward Bede Clancy

His Eminence
Edward Clancy
AC
Cardinal-Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney
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Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
Province Sydney
See Sydney
Appointed 12 April 1983
Installed 27 April 1983
Term ended 26 March 2001
Predecessor James Darcy Freeman
Successor George Pell
Other posts Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella
Orders
Ordination 23 July 1949
by Norman Thomas Gilroy
Consecration 19 January 1974
by James Darcy Freeman
Created Cardinal 28 June 1988
by Pope John Paul II
Personal details
Birth name Edward Bede Clancy
Born (1923-12-13)13 December 1923
Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia
Died 3 August 2014(2014-08-03) (aged 90)
Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australian
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Motto Fides mundum vincit ("Faith conquers the world")
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Informal style Cardinal
See Sydney (emeritus)

Edward Bede Clancy AC (13 December 1923 – 3 August 2014) was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988.

Clancy was born in Lithgow, New South Wales, on 13 December 1923. He said that he wanted to be a priest from an early age and pretended to celebrate his first Mass while still a child, to the amusement of his brother and sisters. After completing his studies at Marist Brothers College, Parramatta, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1949, the same year as the future Australian cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy.

In 1953 Clancy earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). Clancy continued his education, eventually earning his doctorate in theology in 1965. He then started as a teacher and later accepting the position of chaplain at the University of Sydney. He also served as the official spokesperson for the archdiocese at this time and became very well known on that basis.

On 19 January 1974, Clancy was consecrated titular Bishop of Árd Carna and Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney.

On 24 November 1978, he was appointed Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn). In the little over four years that he was Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Clancy was respected by the people of Canberra Goulburn as a very friendly and approachable archbishop who was also very supportive of his people and his priests. He had a great rapport with young people in the archdiocese.

On 12 February 1983 he was appointed Archbishop of Sydney and on 28 June 1988 he was elevated to Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella. He also continued his education career throughout this time, becoming the Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University in 1992.


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