William Barry (1872–1929) was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest who served as Archbishop of Hobart, Tasmania.
Born in 1872, in Midleton, Co. Cork, he was educated locally by the Christian Brothers and at St Colman's College, Fermoy.
In 1892 he entered All Hallows College,[1] Dublin to train as a missionary priest.
He was ordained in 1898, and posted to the Archdiocese of Sydney, by Cardinal Moran, where he worked at St. Mary's Cathedral.
[3] He died on 13 June 1929; he was succeeded by Kilkenny-born and Rome-educated William Hayden.