George Pell

Also known as George Cardinal Pell

Australian Catholic cardinal (1941–2023)

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Born: 1941
Works: 8

Top works

Prison Journal, Volume 3
Prison Journal, Volume 2
Prison Journal, Volume 1
Test Everything
Be not afraid

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: New Orleans
Active from: 1992-05-29

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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5 total works indexed

A short history ofSHELX
· 2007 · cited 79,662x
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,793x
Crystal structure refinement withSHELXL
· 2015 · cited 40,109x
SHELXT– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 26,987x
A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,020x

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Key facts

Church: Catholic
Appointed: 24 February 2014
Term ended: 24 February 2019
Successor: Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves
Other post: Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello (2003 ‍ – ‍ 2023)
Previous posts: Titular Bishop of Scala (1987 ‍ – ‍ 1996) Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne (1987 ‍ – ‍ 1996) Archbishop of Melbourne (1996 ‍ – ‍ 2001) Archbishop of Sydney (2001 ‍ – ‍ 2014) Member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers (2013 ‍ – ‍ 2018) Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy (2014 ‍ – ‍ 2019)
Ordination: 16 December 1966, by Gregorio Pietro Agagianian
Consecration: 21 May 1987, by Frank Little
Created cardinal: 21 October 2003, by John Paul II
Rank: Cardinal priest
Born: ( 1941-06-08 ) 8 June 1941, Ballarat , Victoria, Australia
Died: 10 January 2023 (2023-01-10) (aged 81), Rome , Italy
Buried: St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
Education: Corpus Christi College, Melbourne Pontifical Urban University Campion Hall, Oxford Monash University
Motto: Nolite timere , ( Latin for ' Be not afraid ' )
Ordained by: Gregorio Pietro Agagianian
Date: 16 December 1966
Place: St. Peter's Basilica , Vatican City

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Motto: "Be not afraid"

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date of birth: 1941-06-08
Commons category: George Pell
name in native language: George Pell
date of death: 2023-01-10

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George Pell (8 June 1941 – 10 January 2023) was an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church. In 2018, Pell was convicted of child sexual abuse, before the convictions were unanimously quashed on appeal by the High Court of Australia in 2020. Between conviction and acquittal, Pell served more than a year in prison, much of it in solitary confinement. In January 2025 it was announced that the Australian National Redress Scheme, a non-judicial program, had accepted that Pell abused two boys in Ballarat in the 1970s, with compensation paid to one of the boys five weeks prior to Pell's death. According to findings released by Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2020, Pell knew of child sexual abuse by clergy by the 1970s but did not take adequate action to address it. Pell said he was "surprised" and that the royal commission's findings "are not supported by evidence".

Ordained a priest in 1966 and bishop in 1987, Pell was made a cardinal in 2003. He worked as a priest in rural Victoria and in Melbourne and also chaired the aid organisation Caritas Australia from 1988 to 1997. Pell served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014), the seventh Archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne (1987–1996). He served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy at the Vatican from 2014 to 2019 and a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers from 2013 to 2018.