Some Notable Augustinians

It is always difficult to choose criteria for selection those who are noteable. Of the approximately two hundred Augustinians who have served in Australia since the year 1838, a few have been chosen; many others could have been included.

James Alypius Goold OSA

Bishop (later Archbishop) James Alypius Goold O.S.A. was the first Catholic bishop in Melbourne from 1848 to 1886.

Martin Crane OSA

Martin Crane O.S.A. was born on in Ireland on 11th October 1818, six years after Bishop James Goold. He was the son of James Crane...

Stephen Reville OSA

Stephen Reville was born at Wexford in Ireland on 9 May 1844. He entered the Augustinian Novitiate at Callan in May 1863...

John Hutchinson OSA

John Hutchinson parallels with James Alypius Goold osa as an Augustinian bishop who pioneered the establishment of an Australian diocese...

James Dominic Murray OSA

James Dominic Murray O.S.A. was the Vicar Apostolic of Cooktown and then the Bishop of Cairns, Queensland in 1898-1914.

John Heavey OSA

John Heavey osa was the youngest and the last of the six Augustinian bishops in Australia; he was born in 1868...

Gregory Fitzgerald OSA

Brother James (but known as Greg) Fitzgerald O.S.A. (photo at right) was honoured by a display in the Moree Plains Gallery in north-western New South Wales.