John Hugh Cullen (1883–1970), was an Irish-born Catholic priest, writer and historian, who served in Australia.
Limerick awarded a BA from the Royal University of Ireland (RUI).
Cullen spent four years training as a missionary priest in All Hallows College, Dublin, for the Australian Diocese of Hobart, he was ordained a priest on 24 June 1908.
As a historian he researched and wrote about the Catholic church in Tasmania, he also wrote comprehensively on Robert Willson, the first bishop of Hobart in a series of articles in the Australasian Catholic Record, which became a biography of him and is the basis of the biographical entry he wrote for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
[3] Two of his brothers, Arthur Cullen (1889–1939) and Joseph Cullen (1892–1951), followed him into the priesthood, also training at All Hallows, and also qualified with degrees from the National University of Ireland (which replaced the RUI).