The Most Reverend Ronald Mulkearns | |
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6th Roman Catholic Bishop of Ballarat | |
Church | Roman Catholic |
Diocese | Ballarat |
Previous post(s) | Titular Bishop of Cululi |
Orders | |
Ordination | 22 July 1956 (Priest) |
Consecration | 1 May 1971 (Bishop) |
Personal details | |
Born | Ronald Austin Mulkearns 11 November 1930 Caulfield, Victoria, Australia |
Died | 3 April 2016 | (aged 85)
Nationality | Australian |
Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
Occupation | Roman Catholic bishop |
Profession | Cleric |
Ronald Austin Mulkearns (11 November 1930 – 3 April 2016) was the bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ballarat in Ballarat, Australia, a diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Melbourne.[1] He resigned as bishop on 30 May 1997.[1] The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that Mulkearns was "derelict in his duty".[2]