1. Barry James Hickey was born on 16 April 1936 and an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the eighth Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Perth, Western Australia, serving from 1991 until his retirement in 2012.
10 Facts About Barry Hickey
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Barry Hickey was parish priest of Sacred Heart Parish, Highgate, at the time of his consecration as Bishop of Geraldton in 1984.
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Barry Hickey was installed as Archbishop of Perth on 27 August 1991.
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Barry Hickey is Knight Commander with Star and Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy of Australia Western of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
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On 5 June 2007 Barry Hickey made a controversial statement by saying that if the Western Australian members of parliament who identified as Catholic did not oppose the Human Reproductive Technology Amendment Bill, which would allow expansion of stem cell research, then they could be refused Holy Communion or face excommunication as a last resort.
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Barry Hickey reportedly said that he did not consider that he had made a threat.
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Barry Hickey later said that he would not refuse Communion.
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Barry Hickey chose the title based on an article in The Tablet where the author had written about his experience of the charismatic movement in the United Kingdom.
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In February 2024, Barry Hickey published a memoir titled My Spirit Land regarding his time in the Goldfields in Western Australia.
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Barry Hickey was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1982 for service to the community.