Patrick Clune

Bishop/Archbishop of Perth In 1911 he was nominated Bishop of Perth and received episcopal ordination from Cardinal Patrick Moran on 17 March 1911.

Two years later in 1913, the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese and thus Clune became Archbishop. Clune with his strong support for the Great War and conscription in Australia, would have been seen as pro-British, had met with and gained the trust of Lloyd George, returned to Dublin incognito as "Doctor Walsh", he met with Arthur Griffith (acting president of the republic and Sinn Féin while De Valera was in America) in Mountjoy Jail and then Michael Collins who was voted by the Dail to act as president while Griffith was in prison.

Clune's meeting with the Irish republican leadership was arranged by Bishop Fogarty of Killaloe, Bishop in Clune's native County Clare, who had served as vice-president on Maynooth to the then president and future Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix who was known for his nationalist strong sympathies. Mannix was an opponent of Clune among the Australian bishops during the Great War conscription debate.

Death and reburial He died on 24 May 1935 and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery. His remains were exhumed in June 2013, and reinterred in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral Perth in September 2013. He was succeeded by another Irish-born prelate, Archbishop Redmond Prendiville.