James Darcy Freeman

Styles of James Freeman
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Sydney

Sir James Darcy Freeman KBE (19 November 1907 – 16 March 1991) was an Australian cardinal and the sixth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Regina Pacis in Ostia. He was ordained a priest of the Sydney archdiocese on 13 July 1930, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney on 9 December 1956 and ordained Titular Bishop of Hermopolis. In 1973 he was elevated to the cardinalate.

Freeman was born on 19 November 1907 in Annandale, New South Wales, to Robert Freeman, a tramway driver and his wife Margaret Smith. He was educated at the Sisters of Charity, Elizabeth Bay, and the Christian Brothers high school at St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney where he was regarded as a good student who enjoyed literature, music and sport. He was able to obtain special permission from Rome to be ordained a priest at the age of 22. He attended seminary at St Columba's Springwood and St Patrick's College, Manly. He was ordained on 13 July 1930 by Archbishop Bartolomeo Cattaneo and incardinated in the Archdiocese of Sydney. He then served as an assistant priest in Grafton, Murwillumbah, Strathfield, Mosman and at St Mary's Cathedral. Following that he became the private secretary to the archbishop and chaplain to the Christian Brothers College of St Patrick's College, Strathfield. He also served as administrator of Haymarket parish and parish priest of Stanmore.

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