词条 | Thomas Joseph Brosnahan |
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| offstyle=Your Excellency | relstyle=Bishop | image = Mitre (plain).svg | image_size = 200px }} The Most Reverend Thomas Joseph Brosnahan, Archbishop Emeritus, C.S.Sp. (30 March 1905 – 26 January 1996) was Archbishop of Freetown and Bo in Sierra Leone.[1] Early lifeBorn in Whitegate, Ireland, on 30 March 1905.[2] Priestly lifeHe entered the Holy Ghost Fathers and his ordination took place on 16 June 1929.[1][2] Ministry in NigeriaHis ministry in East Nigeria began in 1933 where he remained for 20 years.[1] Bishop of Freetown and BoHe arrived in Freetown in 1953 to succeed Archbishop Ambrose Kelly who had died the previous year.[1] He was appointed Bishop of Freetown and Bo and began his ministry in Sierra Leone.[1][2] The main focus of his work was education and he made tremendous progress in this area.[1] He founded Christ the King College in Bo the year of his arrival.[1] On 9 April 1961, he made history when he performed the first ordination of a diocesan priest, Joseph Ganda, at the Immaculate Heart Church in Bo.[1] Second Vatican CouncilHe was a council father in Sessions 1 (11 October 1962 to 8 December 1962), Session 2 (29 September 1963 to 4 December 1963), Session 3 (14 September 1964 to 21 November 1964) and Session 4 (14 September 1965 to 8 December 1965) of the Second Vatican Council.[2] First archbishop of Freetown and BoBishop Brosnahan achieved another career milestone when he became the first Archbishop of Freetown and Bo in 1971.[1] From 1971 to 1975, he was president of the Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops' Conference of The Gambia and Sierra Leone.[1] In 1975, he erected the Archdiocesan Secretariat Santanno House on Howe Street.[1] He retired in 1980 and was succeeded by Joseph Ganda.[1] LegacyChrist the King College, which he founded in 1953, went on to become one of the biggest and most popular colleges in Sierra Leone.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} Today it is a technical college that is a subsidiary of the University of Sierra Leone and has many prominent figures among its alumni among them politician Charles Margai and former vice president of Sierra Leone Solomon Berewa. A number of international students from Liberia, Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria attend the college. References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {{cite web | url =http://catholicchurchsl.org/history.php | title =A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Sierra Leone | accessdate =6 May 2018 | publisher =Catholic Bishop's Conference of Sierra Leone }} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite web | url =http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbrosn.html | title =Archbishop Thomas Joseph Brosnahan | accessdate =7 May 2018 | publisher =David M. Cheney }} External links
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