Robert Dermot O'Flanagan
Robert Dermot O'Flanagan (born March 9, 1901 in Lahinch , County Clare , Ireland , † December 31, 1972 ) was Bishop of Juneau .
Life
Robert Dermot O'Flanagan attended the Dominican- run school in Dún Laoghaire and Belvedere College in Dublin . O'Flanagan studied Catholic theology and philosophy at Ignatius College in Valkenburg aan de Geul in the Netherlands . He received the Sacrament of Ordination for Vicariate Apostolic Alaska on August 27, 1929 .
Robert Dermot O'Flanagan then returned to Ireland and taught at Clongowes Wood College in Clane , County Kildare from 1930 to 1932 . He volunteered for the mission in Alaska . In 1933, O'Flanagan arrived in Juneau . First he worked in Seward . From 1933 to 1951 Robert Dermot O'Flanagan was pastor of the Holy Family Parish in Anchorage .
On July 9, 1951, Pope Pius XII appointed him . to the Bishop of Juneau. The Vicar Apostolic of Alaska, Francis Doyle Gleeson SJ , donated him episcopal ordination on October 3 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Spokane , Charles Daniel White , and the Bishop of Yakima , Joseph Patrick Dougherty .
O'Flanagan attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council .
Robert Dermot O'Flanagan resigned as Bishop of Juneau on June 19, 1968 and was named Titular Bishop of Trecalae . On January 13, 1971 he renounced the titular diocese of Trecalae.
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Bishop of Juneau 1951–1968 |
Francis Thomas Hurley |
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| SURNAME | O'Flanagan, Robert Dermot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish clergyman, Bishop of Juneau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahinch , County Clare , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1972 |