Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

denis hurley

Bernard Purcell (Editor of the Irish World Newspaper) with Sam Blake and Simon Trewin (photo: Sarah Finucane)

Honouring South Africa’s late social justice activist Archbishop Denis Hurley

The late South African Archbishop, and social justice and anti-apartheid campaigner, Denis Hurley of the Order of Mary Immaculate or OMI (1915-2004) was archbishop of Durban from 1951 until 1992. Born in Cape Town to Irish emigrant parents, he spent his early years on Robben Island – site of the jail in which Nelson Mandela...

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