5 November, Archbishop Spence dies.
5 November, Archbishop Killian becomes Archbishop of Adelaide.
1939
28 June, Archbishop Killian dies.
Fr Matthew Beovich is elected Archbishop of Adelaide in December.
1940
7 April, Archbishop Beovich is consecrated Archbishop of Adelaide.
1944
Celebrations to mark the centenary of the foundation of the church in SA are held. At the mass they use the candlesticks and altar linen brought from Ireland to South Australia by Mrs Bridget Dechan. She had prepared the altar for the first Mass in 1840 in the home of William Gerard Phillips. These now belong to St Dominic's Priory in North Adelaide. The chalice is that given by Pope Pius IX to Bishop Murphy at his 1846 ad limina visit to Rome .
1949
A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is ordered from Portugal and carved by Guilhermo Thedim from a block of Brazilian rosewood.
1954
A new shrine in honour of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is blessed. Fr Cahill of the Redemptorist Fathers had opened the appeal for this shrine in 1947. The shrine is made by the organ-building firm of Walkers for Burns, Oates and Bartlett Ltd of London. The reredos is of waxed English oak in which are inset panels depicting fifteen mysteries of the rosary. The panels are in Opus Sectile mosaic. Over them is a picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, sent out by the Father General of the Redemptorist Congregation. This picture is supposed to be an exact model of the original one in St Alphonso, Rome, and said to be the most perfect copy ever made. Its size is the same as that of the original and, like it, is painted on cedar wood. The haloes around the head of Mary and the infant Jesus are of punched work. The artist was Giovanni Burkhardt of Rome (1910).
1957
May 21, Bishop James Gleeson is consecrated Auxiliary Bishop following the serious illness of Archbishop Beovich.
1964
6 July, Archbishop Gleeson is appointed Coadjutor Archbishop cum jure successions.
