Brian Farrell

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Brian Farrell LC (born February 8, 1944 in Dublin , Ireland ) is a Curia Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Brian Farrell attended the Irish Christian Brothers School in Drimnagh, Dublin. He left Ireland at a young age and joined the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in 1961 , completed the novitiate in Salamanca , Spain, and began his studies at the Pontifical University of Salamanca , where the Legionaries of Christ maintain their religious studies. In Rome he studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas until 1966 . He received the sacrament of ordination on November 26, 1969 in the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Philip Martyrs in Rome . From 1970 to 1976 he was the novice master of his congregation in Connecticut , USA . After Farrell received his doctorate in theology in 1981 at the Gregoriana in Rome with a thesis on dogmatics , he joined the State Secretariat on October 1, 1981 . From 1999 to 2002 he was head of the English-speaking department in the General Section.

Together with Giuseppe Lazzarotto , who later served as papal nuncio in Ireland (2000–2007), Farrell was involved in the State Secretariat from the mid-1980s on shaping the Vatican's relations with Ireland. Brian Farrell is a close friend of Desmond Cardinal Connell , who served as Archbishop of Dublin from 1988 to 2004 and is controversial because of his involvement in covering up child abuse cases by Catholic clergy in Ireland.

Pope John Paul II called Farrell on December 19, 2002 as secretary to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and appointed him Titular Bishop of Abitinae . The Pope himself donated his episcopal ordination on January 6, 2003 in St. Peter's Basilica ; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops of the Curia, Leonardo Sandri and Antonio Maria Vegliò .

In the presence of around 4,300 guests, Brian Farrell ordained 59 men of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ on December 12th, 2009 in the Roman basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls .

His younger brother Kevin Farrell was also with the Legionaries of Christ but resigned in the 1980s. He became Bishop of Dallas and has been Cardinal Prefect of the Family Dicastery in the Vatican since autumn 2016 and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Patsy McGarry: Farrell brothers: The two most senior Irish clerics in the Vatican. In: The Irish Times , February 2, 2018, accessed February 16, 2019.
  2. ^ "50th Anniversary of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Rome" ( Memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Regnum Christi , December 28, 2008
  3. ↑ 59 Legionaries of Christ ordained priests in Rome , Regnum Christi , December 13, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Farrell, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farrell, Brian LC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish religious and curia bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland