Fr. Campion Murray, OFM

Franciscan friar, scholar and translator

Fr. Campion Murray, OFM, is Lector Emeritus of the Yarra Theological Union and a Fellow of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He lives at St. Paschal’s College, the Franciscan friary in Box Hill, Melbourne, where he taught from the union’s beginning and was twice elected its President.

He made his final profession in the Province of the Holy Spirit, Australia, in 1948 and was ordained in July 1951. After studies in systematic theology at the Athenaeum Antonianum in Rome he lectured for many years, especially on the Wisdom literature. His twelve-volume Early Franciscan Ascetical Writings is only part of a lifetime of translation.