Bob Leamy Explained

Bob Leamy
Honorific-Suffix:SM
Bishop of Rarotonga
Diocese:Rarotonga
Enthroned:1 April 1984
Ended:8 November 1996
Predecessor:Denis Browne
Successor:Stuart O'Connell
Birth Name:Robin Walsh Leamy
Birth Date:27 July 1934
Birth Place:Wellington, New Zealand
Death Place:Auckland, New Zealand

Robin Walsh Leamy SM (27 July 1934 – 1 January 2022) was a New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate.

Biography

Born in Wellington to Cecil and Hazel Leamy, Leamy was one of five children.[1] [2] One of his sisters became a nun (Sister Patricia Leamy, Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary). He was educated by the Brigidine Sisters and later by the Marist Fathers at St Patrick's College in Silverstream. He studied for the priesthood at the Marist Seminary in Greenmeadows, and was ordained on 21 July 1958.

Leamy served as Bishop of Rarotonga from 1984 to 1996. He resigned from that See on 8 November 1996 and was appointed Bishop Assistant and Vicar general of Auckland on that same day.[3] He retired from that position in 2009 after 14 years' service.[4]

Leamy died in Auckland on 1 January 2022, at the age of 87.[5] [6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Most Rev. Robin Walsh LEAMY . Dominion-Post . 3 January 2022 . 13 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Tributes pour in for Pacific missionary Bishop Robin Leamy . Pacific Media Network . 6 January 2022 . 13 January 2022.
  3. Web site: Bishop Assistant – Bishop Robin Leamy. Catholic Diocese of Auckland. 31 January 2011. https://archive.today/20121220164806/http://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/about-us/about-the-bishops/bishop-assistant-bishop-robin-leamy/. 20 December 2012.
  4. https://www.sm.org.nz/2011/04/bishop-bob-leamy-releases-his-autobiography/ "Bishop Bob Leamy releases his autobiography"
  5. Web site: Bishop Robin Walsh Leamy, S.M. †. 1 January 2022.
  6. https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/02/04/bishop-bob-leamy-was-a-born-leader/ Michael Otto, "Bishop "Bob" was a born Leader", NZ Catholic, 4 February 2002