Francis Brennan
Francis John Joseph Brennan (born May 7, 1894 in Shenandoah , Pennsylvania , † July 2, 1968 in Philadelphia ) was an American clergyman and curial cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .
Life
The son of Irish Catholic couple James and Margaret Brennan (born Connors) visited the seminary St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the neighborhood Overbrook in Pittsburgh . For further studies he went to Rome , where he studied at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Apollinare and at the Pontifical Roman Seminary . He was ordained a priest on April 3, 1920 by Basilio Cardinal Pompili .
After his return to the United States, he was active in pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1924 to 1928 and taught at his alma mater , the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary . In the years from 1937 to 1940 worked in the administration of the archdiocese. As a “brilliant jurist of canon law ” he became an auditor of the Roman Rota on August 1, 1940, and on December 14, 1959 he was promoted to its dean.
On June 10, 1967, he was named titular archbishop of Tubunae in Mauretania . The Cardinal Dean Eugène Cardinal Tisserant donated him episcopal ordination on June 25 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Joseph Carroll McCormick , Bishop of Scranton , and Luigi Faveri , Bishop of Tivoli .
On June 26, 1967, Pope Paul VI. him as a cardinal deacon with the title deaconry Sant'Eustachio in the cardinals college. On January 15, 1968, the Pope entrusted him as Prefect with the leadership of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments .
The cardinal died of a heart attack in Philadelphia on July 2, 1968 at the age of 74 and was buried in the crypt of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul . At the time of his death he had risen to the highest office of the Curia , which had been held by an American.
literature
- Francis J. Brennan , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 28/1968 from July 1, 1968, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Francis Brennan. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 13, 2016. (English)
- Entry for Francis John Brennan on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 13, 2016. (English)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| William Theodore Heard |
Dean of the Roman Rota 1959–1968 |
Bolesław Filipiak |
| Benedetto Aloisi Masella |
Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments in 1968 |
Antonio Cardinal Samore |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brennan, Francis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brennan, Francis John Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shenandoah , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 1968 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia |