Students from St Edmund's College formed a guard of honour and priests broke into song as Bishop Pat Power left St Christopher's Cathedral for the final time, his funeral mass attended by hundreds of people on Wednesday.

His coffin was adorned by a simple cross and native flowers.

Bishop Power, who died on September 15 aged 83, was remembered as a cheeky uncle, passionate Rabbitohs fan, kind and loving priest and fearless bishop, who stood up for the voiceless and often challenged the Catholic Church.

"He comforted the afflicted and disrupted the comfortable," long-time friend Monsignor John Woods said in his homily.

St Christopher's in Manuka was where Pat, aged seven, first decided to become a priest, at his First Holy Communion. That young boy grew up to eventually be ordained in

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