Thomas Carr

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Thomas Joseph Carr (10 May 1839 - 6 May 1917) was the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, from 1886 to 1917. He was born in Moylough in County Galway, and was ordained a priest in 1866. He was Professor of Theology and Vice-President of the Irish seminary at Maynooth. In 1883 he was appointed Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora, a post he held until 1886, when he was appointed Bishop of Melbourne, a city whose Catholic population at this time was almost entirely Irish by birth or descent.

Carr arrived in Melbourne exactly one year after the death of his predecessor, James Alipius Goold. Shortly after his arrival the see of Melbourne was upgraded to an archdiocese, and Carr thus became the first Archbishop of Melbourne.

Carr administered the Archdiocese of Melbourne for thirty years. During that period St Patrick's Cathedral was completed and it was consecrated and officially opened in October 1897. He died in May 1917, and was succeeded by Daniel Mannix.