Barry James Hickey OAM KC*HS [2] (born 16 April 1936)[1] an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the eighth Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Perth, Western Australia, serving from 1991 until his retirement in 2012.
[8] During his tenure as archbishop, Hickey is credited with the significant physical change achieved through the re-building and completion of St Mary's Cathedral, Perth.
[11][12][13] Hickey is Knight Commander with Star and Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy of Australia Western of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
[15] On 5 June 2007 Hickey made a controversial statement by saying that if the Western Australian members of parliament who identified as Catholic did not oppose the Human Reproductive Technology Amendment Bill, which would allow expansion of stem cell research, then they could be refused Holy Communion or face excommunication as a last resort.
[18] Hickey chose the title based on an article in The Tablet where the author had written about his experience of the charismatic movement in the United Kingdom.