Redmond Prendiville

{{Short description|Metropolitan bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2011}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Archbishop | honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Redmond Prendiville | honorific-suffix = | title = 5th Roman Catholic Archbishop | image = Redmond Prendiville.jpg | caption = Archbishop Redmond Prendiville | motto = ''Da anima cetera tolle''<br>(Nothing else matters except for the salvation of souls)<ref name=ADB/> | province = Perth | diocese = Archdiocese of Perth | see = | enthroned = 24 May 1935<ref name=CH/> | ended = 28 June 1968 | predecessor = Patrick Clune | successor = Lancelot Goody | ordination = 14 June 1925 (Priest)<br>in St Kieran's College, Kilkenny, Ireland<ref name=ADB/> | consecration = 22 October 1933 (Bishop)<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bprend.html |title=Archbishop Redmond Garrett |work=The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church |date=20 February 2011 |accessdate=21 December 2011 }}</ref> | cardinal = | rank = | other_post = | birth_name = Redmond Garrett Prendiville | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|09|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Wood, County Kerry, Ireland<ref name=ADB/> | death_date = {{death date and age|1968|06|28|1900|09|11|df=yes}} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia | buried = Karrakatta Cemetery. Exhumed 2009 and re-interred Saturday 5 December 2009, 10am in St Mary's Cathedral, Perth | nationality = Irish/Australian | religion = Roman Catholic Church | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = Roman Catholic bishop | profession = Cleric | alma_mater = University College Dublin, National University of Ireland<br>St Peter's College, Wexford | signature = }} Count '''Redmond Garrett Prendiville''' (11 September 1900 – 28 June 1968)<ref name=CH/> a former Australian metropolitan bishop, was the fifth bishop and second Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Perth. In 1933, at the time of his consecration, aged 32, Prendiville was reputedly the youngest-ever Catholic archbishop.<ref name=ADB>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=prendiville-redmond-11453 |title=Redmond Prendiville (1900–1968) |author=Massam, Katharine |access-date=2025-08-17 |year=2002}}</ref>

==Education== Prendiville began his studies for the priesthood 1918, getting himself expelled from All Hallows College, Dublin, in 1924 for going awol to play football for Kerry in the All-Ireland final.<ref>{{cite book |last1=O Muircheartaigh |first1=Mícheál |title=From Dún Síon to Croke Park |publisher=Penguin Ireland |page=207}}</ref> He studied philosophy and history at University College Dublin (B.A., 1922, National University of Ireland), and theology at St Peter's College, Wexford (1921–25).

== Career == Selected for the Kerry Gaelic football team in 1924, ''Mundy'', as Redmond was called, played in the 1924 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final and was named 'man of the match'.<ref name=ADB/> He was ordained priest at St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, on 11 June 1925.<ref name=ADB/>

Prendiville emigrated to Perth in 1925 and was appointed to the cathedral parish of St. Mary's. In 1929, he was appointed administrator of the Cathedral parish.<ref name=ADB/>

===Archbishop of Perth=== On 22 October 1933, after only eight years as a priest, Prendiville was consecrated titular Archbishop of Cypsela and coadjutor Archbishop of Perth. In 1935, he succeeded Archbishop Patrick Clune as fifth bishop and second archbishop of Perth. He was named bishop assistant at the Papal throne and Count of the Holy See in 1958.

Prendiville was also responsible for establishing up St Thomas More College at the University of Western Australia which was officially opened in 1957.

== Personal life == He suffered two strokes in 1946 which left one of his arms partially paralysed.<ref name=DIBRP>{{cite web |url= https://www.dib.ie/biography/prendiville-redmond-garrett-mundy-a7481 |title= Prendiville, Redmond Garrett (‘Mundy’) |last= Shanahan |first= Jim |date= 1 October 2009 |website= Dictionary of Irish Biography |publisher= |access-date= 22 January 2026 |quote=}}</ref> He was frequently admitted to hospital over the ensuing years. He suffered an aortic lesion and died of a cerebrovascular accident on 28 June 1968 at St John of God Hospital, Subiaco.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.odonohoearchive.com/castleislands-best-mundy-prendiville-1900-1968-archbishop-of-perth/ |title= ‘Castleisland’s Best’: Mundy Prendiville (1900-1968), Archbishop of Perth |last= |first= |date= 2024 |website= Castleisland District Heritage |publisher= |access-date= 22 January 2026 |quote=}}</ref> Following a requiem Mass at St Mary's Cathedral, he was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.<ref name=DIBRP /> He was exhumed in 2009 and reinterred in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, on 5 December 2009.

== Legacy == Prendiville Catholic College in Ocean Reef Western Australia is named after the Archbishop.

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==Further reading== *{{cite book |title=Our cathedral: a history of St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia |author=Winship, John A |location=Perth, Western Australia |publisher=Archdiocese of Perth |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-453-75519-8 |type=paperback }} *Archbishop Redmond Prendiville - obituary - 1900–1968. ''Record ''(Perth, W.A.), No. 3352 (4 July 1968)

==External links== * [http://www.stmc.uwa.edu.au/ St Thomas More college website] {{Kerry Football Team 1924}} {{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title=5th Catholic Archbishop of Perth|before=Patrick Clune |after=Lancelot Goody | years=1935–1968 }} {{s-end}} {{Roman Catholic Archbishops of Perth}}

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