Luc Julian Matthys (3 May 1935 – 26 January 2021) was a Belgian-born Australian

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bishop. Matthys was born in

Drongen Drongen ( French: ''Tronchiennes'') is a district within the city of Ghent (Arrondissement of Ghent). Drongen is divided into three parishes: Drongen, Luchteren and Baarle, East Flanders, Baarle. Monastery Drongen is known for its early medieval ...

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1961 for the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg The Roman Catholic Archiocese of Johannesburg ( la, Ioannesburgen(sis)) is the Metropolitan See for the Ecclesiastical province of Johannesburg in South Africa. History * June 4, 1886: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Transvaal from the A ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. Matthys was incardinated as a priest for the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne is a Latin Rite metropolitan archdiocese in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Erected initially in 1847 as the Diocese of Melbourne, a suffragan diocese of Archdiocese of Sydney, the diocese was eleva ...

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, in 1976. He served as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale The Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1869 and covering the New England and Barwon River regions of New South Wales in Australia. Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic ...

, Australia from 1999 to 2011.Bishop Luc Julian Matthys
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1935 births 2021 deaths Clergy from Ghent Belgian emigrants to Australia 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Australia 20th-century Belgian Roman Catholic priests Roman Catholic bishops of Armidale {{Australia-RC-bishop-stub