Michael Browne

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Michael Cardinal Browne OP (born May 6, 1887 in Grangemokler , Ireland as Michael David Browne , † March 31, 1971 in Rome ) was a Cardinal Curia of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Born in Grangemokler ( Diocese of Waterford , Ireland) in 1887 , Browne attended Rockwell College (Ireland), the Convent of San Clemente in Rome and the theological faculty in Freiburg / Switzerland . He was ordained a priest on May 21, 1910 . From 1919 to 1932 he was a member of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas from 1925 to 1930 as rector . From 1941 to 1951 he chaired the convent of San Clemente in Rome. He headed the Dominican Order from 1955 to 1962 as Magister General and 80th successor to St. Dominic .

Browne was on 19 March 1962 as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonie San Paolo alla Regola in the College of Cardinals received. On April 5, 1962, Pope John XXIII appointed him . the Titular Archbishop of Idebessus and he donated on April 19, 1962 consecration ; Co-consecrators were the cardinals Giuseppe Pizzardo and Benedetto Aloisi Masella .

Cardinal Browne was a respected theologian in his day who embodied the conservative wing at the Second Vatican Council together with Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani , Giuseppe Siri and Ernesto Ruffini, as well as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre . In the events of the Council he stood up again and again in an impressive and eloquent way for the texts prepared by the theological commission and became one of the most important critics of the declaration on religious freedom .

Michael Browne died on March 31, 1971 in Rome and was buried in the Dominican convent of Tallaght in Dublin .

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predecessor Office successor
Antonio Cardinal Bacci Cardinal Protodeacon
1971
Federico Cardinal Callori di Vignale
Manuel Suarez Magister General of the Dominicans
1955–1962
Aniceto Fernández Alonso