John Cani, also known as Giovanni Cani (22 December 1836 – 3 March 1898) was a Roman Catholic
Bishop of Rockhampton.
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Early life
Cani was born at
Castel Bolognese
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,
Province of Ravenna
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, Italy,
[ and educated in his native province and at the ]Sapienza University of Rome
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, where he graduated D.D. and LL.D.
Religious life
He was ordained a priest in 1859, and accompanied the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia located in Brisbane and covering the South East region of Queensland, Australia.
Part of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical ...
, Dr. James Quinn, to Queensland
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. He was appointed parish priest at Warwick, Queensland
Warwick ( ) is a town and locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane. It is the administrative centre of the Southern Downs Region local government area. The surrounding Darling Downs have fostered a strong agr ...
in the same year, and went to Brisbane in 1868.[
Ten years later Dr. Cani was made Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Northern Queensland. On the death of Bishop Quinn, the diocese of Brisbane was divided into two and Dr. Cani was appointed, by papal brief, Bishop of Rockhampton, and was consecrated in St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, by Archbishop ]Roger Vaughan
Roger William Bede Vaughan (9 January 1834 – 18 August 1883) was an English Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey and the second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia from 1877 to 1883.
Biography
Early life
Vaughan was born near Ro ...
, on 21 May 1882.[
He commenced construction of St Josephs Cathedral in Rockhampton in 1893 but did not live to see it completed.
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Later life
Cani contracted dengue fever in November 1897. While he recovered from the fever, he remained in poor health and died from heart failure at his residence in Rockhampton on Thursday 3 March 1898 aged 62. On Saturday 5 March 1898, a Solemn Requiem Mass was held at St Joseph's Pro-Cathedral after which he was buried in South Rockhampton Cemetery
South Rockhampton Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Upper Dawson Road, Allenstown, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1860 to 1970. It is also known as Dawson Road Cemetery and Rockhampton Cemetery. It was add ...
.Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute had about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. They a ...
.
References
External links
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1836 births
1898 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops of Rockhampton
Roman Catholic bishops of Cairns