James Knox
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His Eminence James Knox |
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| President of the Pontifical Council for the Family | |
| Installed | 4 August 1981 |
| Term ended | 26 June 1983 |
| Predecessor | Opilio Rossi |
| Successor | Edouard Gagnon |
| Other posts | 5th Archbishop of Melbourne (1967–1974); Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (1974–1983) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 22 December 1941 |
| Consecration | 8 November 1953 by Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini |
| Created Cardinal | 5 March 1973 |
| Rank | Santa Maria in Vallicella |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | James Robert Knox |
| Born |
2 May 1914 Bayswater, Western Australia, Australia |
| Died | 26 June 1983 (aged 69) |
| Buried | St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Cleric |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum |
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Styles of James Knox |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Melitene (titular see) |
James Robert Knox, GCC (2 March 1914 – 26 June 1983), an Australian Roman Catholic cardinal, was President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, between 1981 and 1983; a Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, between 1974 and 1983; and the fifth Archbishop of Melbourne, serving between 1967 and 1974.
Knox was born in Bayswater, Western Australia. He was a son of Irish–born John Knox and his wife Alice Emily, née Walsh. Attending Catholic schools in Perth, Knox applied to the Archdiocese to study for the priesthood, but there was rejected because it was cheaper to recruit and educate priests in Ireland. He successfully applied to become a priest at the Benedictine Territorial Abbey of New Norcia, and completed his secondary schooling at St Ildephonsus' College, before entering the seminary in 1936. By September that same year, he transferred to the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum in Rome.
Ordained priest on 22 December 1941, he pursued postgraduate studies, obtaining doctorates in theology (1944) and canon law (1949). Unable to return to Australia during World War II, he had been assigned to Propaganda College staff, becoming a vice-rector in 1945. He served as a staff member of the Vatican Secretariat of State from 1948 until 1950. He was also a staff member of Vatican Radio for a year between 1949 and 1950 and appointed to the rank of monsignor on 22 July 1950. He was Secretary to the Apostolic Delegate in Japan from 1950 until 1953.
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