Bishop Pat Power has died at the age of 83. Photo: The Catholic Voice.

Catholic auxiliary Bishop Pat Power, beloved for his compassion, humility and deep love for his community, has died at the age of 83 after a long illness.

A local to his bootstraps, his focus was always on elevating human dignity and combating human suffering through love and practical action.

He had been a priest for 60 years, working consistently with people struggling at the margins, from refugees to Indigenous Australians and those living in poverty in the national capital.

Of his time working with the Causeway community, he told the archdiocesan newspaper, The Catholic Voice , “Most of them wouldn’t have gone to Mass, but they had a great heart for each other. That’s what being a Christian and a Catholic is a

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