Possibly the Right Rev Dr Lawrence Bonaventure Sheil OSF

Lawrence Bonaventure Sheil OSF (1815-1872), Catholic bishop, was educated in Ireland and Rome, where he taught for some time after his ordination in 1839. Recruited for the Australian mission, he arrived in Melbourne in early 1853. After serving on the Catholic education board of Victoria, he went to Ballarat as archdeacon in 1859. Seven years later, he was consecrated Bishop of Adelaide. In South Australia he nominally presided over a period of great expansion in Catholic facilities and personnel; there were scores of Catholic schools in his diocese. However, for much of his time as bishop he was in Rome and Ireland, recruiting and attending to other business; and he was also in poor health. As a result, there was considerable confusion and disunity amongst South Australian Catholics during his bishopric. In 1871 he hastily excommunicated Mary MacKillop, founder of the teaching congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph. Five months later, as he lay dying from a carbuncle, he instructed a colleague to lift his censure. MacKillop was restored to the church without delay, and later completely exonerated.