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Retired Archbishop Philip Wilson, former president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference who served as archbishop of Adelaide for 17 years, died at age 70 Jan. 17, 2021. He is pictured in a July 20, 2014, photo. (Credit: Paul Jeffrey/CNS.)
Retired Archbishop Philip Wilson, former president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference who served as archbishop of Adelaide for 17 years, died Jan. 17. He was 70.
ADELAIDE, Australia Retired Archbishop Philip Wilson, former president of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference who served as archbishop of Adelaide for 17 years, died Jan. 17. He was 70.
The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference said that while the archbishop had suffered a series of health problems in recent years, including cancer, his death “was unexpected.”
Philip Wilson, former Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, dies aged 70
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Former Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson has died at the age of 70.
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The Adelaide Archdiocese said while he had suffered ill health, his death was sudden
Emeritus Archbishop Wilson went through a high-profile court case in 2018, before his conviction was overturned
Church leaders led tributes to the former Adelaide archbishop
Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge said on Twitter that Emeritus Archbishop Wilson had died unexpectedly on Sunday afternoon.
In 2018, Emeritus Archbishop Wilson became the highest-ranking Catholic in the world to be convicted with concealing child sex abuse, over paedophile priest Jim Fletcher s crimes in the Hunter Valley in the 1970s.
Mr O Regan asked the premier if the government are in favour of changing the present inappropriate name of the colony for the more suitable one of MÄoriland . [Premier Richard Seddon] thought, for weal or woe, we had better stick to the name of New Zealand, and he was not inclined to change the name.
MÄoriland. If you used that term today, nobody would know what you were talking about (unless they were a film buff, in which case they might think you were talking about the MÄoriland Film Festival).
But if you jumped in a time machine and headed back to the 19th or early 20th century, everybody would know that MÄoriland meant New Zealand.
Analysis - In 2015, New Zealand s Parliament was in the middle of a fierce debate to change a part of our heritage, the national flag.
But 110 years earlier, there was an argument over an even more fundamental part of NZ identity. Our name.
Musings in Māoriland was a collection of poetry by Thomas Bracken, author of NZ’s national anthem.
Photo: Supplied / Te Ara
It was 1895 and the radical liberal MP Patrick O Regan took the floor of Parliament with a proposal to ditch New Zealand in favour of a new name. Mr O Regan asked the premier if the government are in favour of changing the present inappropriate name of the colony for the more suitable one of Māoriland .