Maurice Carmody

Maurice Carmody (born 1946) is a New Zealand Medieval Historian and writer, specialising in the history of the Franciscan order.

Biography

Carmody was born and spent his childhood in Auckland. He was educated at St Peter's College and entered the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) in February 1963. Carmody was ordained priest in that order on 23 May 1970.^[1] He went to Rome to study and was awarded a Doctorate in Church History by the Gregorian University in 1988. He was appointed Vice-President of the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality and Professor of Franciscan History, Pontificio Ateneo of St. Anthony (the Antonianum), Rome. He also held the post of lecturer in Church History at the Beda College and at the Dominican Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum).^[2] He returned to New Zealand in 2005 and, having left the Franciscan order, became a secular priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. He was appointed Parish priest and administrator of Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington (2005-2008). He is currently Parish Priest at Stoke (2008- ).^[3]

Bibliography

• Maurice Carmody OFM, The Leonine Union of the Order of Friars Minor 1897, The Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University, New York, 1994.
• Maurice Carmody, The Franciscan Story: St Francis of Assisi and his influence since the thirteenth century, Athena Press, London, 2008.

Notes

1. ^ St Peter's College Magazine 1970, p. 9.
2. ^ Rick Maxwell, St Peter's College, Auckland, Simerlocy Press, Auckland, 2008, p. 21
3. ^ Peter Owens, "'Meeting brothers and sisters' brings joy", NZ Catholic, July 27, 2008, p. XI.

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