Norman Thomas Gilroy

Sir Norman Thomas Gilroy KBE (22 January 1896 – 21 October 1977) was an Australian archbishop. He was the first Australian-born cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He became a priest in 1923. He was Archbishop of Sydney from 1940 until his retirement in 1971. He was became a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969. He was the first Roman Catholic cardinal to have been given a knighthood since the English Reformation. In 1970, he was named Australian of the Year.^[1] He was born in Glebe, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.

Gilroy in 1946

Gilroy died on 21 October 1977 in Lewisham, New South Wales, at the age of 81.^[2]

References

1. "1970 Australian of the Year". Australian of the Year Awards. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
2. Boland, T. P. "Gilroy, Sir Norman Thomas (1896–1977)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

Other websites

• Norman Thomas Gilroy at Catholic-Hierarchy.org