Gerard D'Arcy-Irvine

Gerard Addington D'Arcy-Irvine (17 June 1862 – 18 April 1932) was the Bishop coadjutor of Sydney.

D'Arcy-Irving was born in Wandsworth into an ecclesiastical family [1] and educated at Napier Grammar School and Moore College. He was ordained in 1885 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Stephen's, Newtown, Sydney[2] and St John's, Parramatta.[3] He was then an incumbent at St Matthew's, Windsor, SS Simon and Jude's Bowral, St Michael's, Wollongong, Holy Trinity (Garrison) Church, Sydney and St Michael's Vaucluse and Rose Bay. In 1908 he became Archdeacon of Cumberland and in 1917 vicar general of the Sydney diocese.[4] He was elevated to the episcopate in 1926 and died on 18 April 1932.

References
  1. He was the fifth son of Canon Georges M. D'Arcy-Irvine, “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  2. ADB on-line
  3. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory", London, Hamilton & Co, 1889
  4. "About NSW". Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.


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