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John Ahern Torpie

Roman Catholic bishop (1910-2000)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ64734781 ↗
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John Ahern Torpie (6 August 1910 – 30 December 2000) was an Australian Roman Catholic prelate. He was appointed bishop of Bishop of Cairns from 1967 to 1985. He was the first Catholic bishop to visit Torres Strait Islands. He died in Brisbane on 30 December 2000 at the age of 90.

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“John Ahern Torpie” enters the record as roman Catholic bishop (1910-2000). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, Ahern and Torpie can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Ahern Torpie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.