Luc Julian Matthys

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Luc Julian Matthys (3 May 1935 – 26 January 2021) was a Belgian-born Australian Roman Catholic bishop. Matthys was born in Drongen, Ghent, Belgium.

He became a priest in 1961 for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia, in 1976.

He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale, Australia from 1999 to 2011.

Matthys died on 26 January 2021, aged 85.[1]

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