Brendan Comiskey

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Brendan Oliver Comiskey SSCC (born August 13, 1935 in Tasson , Ireland ) is an Irish clergyman. From 1984 to 2002 he was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ferns in south east Ireland.

Life

Brendan Comiskey joined the congregation of the Arnstein Fathers and was ordained a priest on June 25, 1961 . On December 3, 1979, he was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Dublin and titular bishop of Thibilis . He received his episcopal ordination on January 20, 1980, the Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Ryan ; Co-consecrators were the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi , and Joseph A. Carroll , Auxiliary Bishop in Dublin. In 1984 he was transferred to Ferns as bishop. In 1995 he demanded that the church lift celibacy , whereupon he was invited to the Vatican for talks . A three-month study visit to the United States followed.

On April 1, 2002, the liberal bishop resigned due to several incidents of sexual abuse of children by priests in his diocese, about which he is said to have known for years without taking decisive action against it. The bishop's alcohol problems were also mentioned and treatment for them was suggested.

As apostolic administrator of the diocese of the bishop was to fill the post after the resignation initially Eamonn Oliver Walsh , one of the auxiliary bishops in Dublin used. He also resigned on December 24, 2009 after his name was published in the Murphy Report, also because of the abuse scandal of the Catholic Church in Ireland from the episcopate.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abuse scandal: Irish bishops offer resignation on Christmas Eve. In: Spiegel Online . December 25, 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Comiskey, Brendan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comiskey, Brendan Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of the Irish diocese of Ferns
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Tasson , Ireland