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Desmond Effeney - Brisbane

28th November 1939 - 9th June 2010

Fr Des Effeney, Parish Priest of Manly, Archdiocese of Brisbane, died on June 9, aged 70. Des was a late vocation, ordained from St Paul's Seminary in Kensington NSW on 10th March 1995. He will be buried on Wednesday 16th June.

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