George Pell who lived from June 8, 1941, to January 10 2023 was an Australian Catholic cardinal.
He was ordained a priest in 1966 and a bishop in 1987 before being named a cardinal in 2003. Pell was the eighth Archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne’s seventh Archbishop.
George Pell wife
Pell, as the Catholic faith demands of its leaders, was never married.
Cardinal Gregorio Pietro Agagianian ordained Pell as a priest on December 16, 1966, at St. Peter’s Basilica.
In 1967, he got a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Pontificia Università Urbaniana. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in church history from the University of Oxford in 1971.
George Pell children
From 1970 to 1973, the childless Pell worked as an assistant priest in Swan Hill, and from 1973 to 1983, he worked in Ballarat East.
He received his Master of Education degree from Monash University in Melbourne in 1982.
George Pell parents
The late Pell was born to Englishman George Arthur, a heavyweight boxing champion, and Irish woman Margaret Lillian Pell in Ballarat, Victoria.
His mother was a devout Catholic whiles his father was a non-practicing Anglican.
George Pell siblings
He had just one sister named Margaret Pell.
Source: Ghanfuo.com
