Sir James Patrick O'Collins KBE (31 March 1892 − 25 November 1983), an Australian suffragan bishop, was the fifth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ballarat, serving for over 29 years.
Born in Port Melbourne, Victoria, O'Collins was ordained as a priest on 23 December 1922.
[1] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1980 for services to religion and the community.
[2] The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that O'Collins had received a complaint in the 1960s that Father Gerald Ridsdale had sexually abused a boy but did not take action.
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