Guilford Clyde Young was an Australia

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Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n Roman Catholic

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 clergyman.

Born at Sandgate, Queensland

Sandgate, Queensland

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, he was ordained

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 priest

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 in Rome

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 on 3 June 1939, after a brilliant academic career at Propaganda Fide College

Pontifical Urbaniana University

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. Returning to Australia he was appointed secretary

Secretary

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 to the Apostolic Delegation

Apostolic Nunciature to Australia

The Nunciature to Australia is an ecclesiastical office of the Roman Catholic Church in Australia. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio to Australia with the rank of an ambassador...

 for a short time until he was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop

Auxiliary bishop

An auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial office...

 of the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of CanberraGoulburn is a Latin rite archdiocese located in the Australian Capital Territory and the South West Slopes, Southern Tablelands, Monaro and South Coast regions of New South Wales, Australia...

 in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney

St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney

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, on 8 September 1948. He was translated to Hobart as Coadjutor

Coadjutor bishop

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 in November 1954, and succeeded to the See on the resignation of Archbishop Ernest Tweedy in September the following year. Archbishop Young's years in Hobart were distinguished by his leadership in the implementation of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council

Second Vatican Council

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, and his contribution to the liturgical

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 renewal of the Church both at the local level and through his appointment in Rome first to the Consilium

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for the implementation of the Council's reforms, and later to the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship

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