# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-ashby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:26:05.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-ashby"
name: "Brian Ashby"
slug: "brian-ashby"
description: "Brian Patrick Ashby was the fifth Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand. He was appointed by Pope Paul VI on 11 July 1964, resigned the see on 4 July 1985, and died on 5 June 1988. He was the leading New Zealand Catholic bishop in attempting to implement the decrees of the Vatican Council II and he was the leading bishop on social justice issues."
tagline: "5th Roman Catholic bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
birthDate: "1923-11-10"
deathDate: "1988-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.16
  momentum:             5.964912280701754
  historical:           5.269942666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ashby"
    title: "Brian Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "برايان أشبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "برايان اشبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ashby"
    title: "Brian Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Patrick_Ashby"
    title: "Brian Patrick Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Patrick_Ashby"
    title: "Brian Patrick Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4962998"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump