Charles Richard Mulrooney

American prelate

Charles Richard Mulrooney
Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn
Appointed	February 24, 1959
Installed	1959
Term ended	1981
Orders
Ordination	June 10, 1930
Consecration	April 22, 1960 by Bishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart
Personal details
Born	(1906-01-13)January 13, 1906 Brooklyn, New York
Died	August 5, 1989(1989-08-05) (aged 83) Queen of Peace Residence, Queens Village
Nationality	American
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Parents	Patrick and Katherine (née Gibbons) Mulrooney
Education	Cathedral College, Brooklyn
Alma mater	St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland

Charles Richard Mulrooney (January 13, 1906—August 5, 1989) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1959 to 1981.

Biography

Mulrooney was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Patrick and Katherine (née Gibbons) Mulrooney.^[1] He attended Cathedral College in Brooklyn from 1921 to 1924, and graduated from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1926.^[1] He then studied at the Sulpician Seminary of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree.^[1]

He was ordained to the priesthood in Washington on June 10, 1930.^[2] Following his return to New York, he was assigned as a curate at St. Gerard Majella Church in Hollis, where he remained for two years.^[1] He taught at Cathedral College from 1932 until 1952, when he became its rector.^[3]

On February 24, 1959, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn and titular bishop of Valentiniana by Pope John XXIII.^[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 22 from Bishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart, with Bishops James Griffiths and John Joseph Carberry serving as co-consecrators.^[2] As an auxiliary bishop, he served as pastor of St. Jerome's Church in Flatbush from 1959 to 1972.^[3] Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, he resigned as auxiliary bishop on January 13, 1981.^[2]

He died at the Queen of Peace Residence in Queens Village, at age 83.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Curtis, Georgina Pell (1961). The American Catholic Who's Who. Vol. XIV. Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Walter Romig.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Bishop Charles Richard Mulrooney". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bishop Charles R. Mulrooney Is Dead at 83". The New York Times. 1989-08-07.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by –	Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn 1959 – 1981	Succeeded by –

Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn

Bishops

Ordinaries: John Loughlin; Charles Edward McDonnell; Thomas Edmund Molloy; Bryan Joseph McEntegart; Francis Mugavero; Thomas Vose Daily; Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio; Robert J. Brennan

Auxiliary bishops: Gerald Barbarito; Anthony Bevilacqua; John Joseph Boardman; Frank Joseph Caggiano; Ignatius Anthony Catanello; Raymond Francis Chappetto; Octavio Cisneros; Joseph Peter Michael Denning; Raymond Augustine Kearney; Charles Richard Mulrooney; George Mundelein; Edmund Joseph Reilly; Paul Robert Sanchez; Guy Sansaricq; John J. Snyder; Joseph Michael Sullivan; René Arnold Valero

Bishops who served as priests in the diocese: Vincent DePaul Breen; Edward Bernard Scharfenberger

Churches

List: List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn

Cathedral: Cathedral Basilica of St. James, Brooklyn

Co-cathedral: Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, Brooklyn

Basilicas: Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Brooklyn; Basilica of Regina Pacis, Brooklyn

Parishes: Church of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Blaise, Brooklyn; Church of the Holy Innocents, Brooklyn; Holy Cross Church, Queens; Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Queens; Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Our Lady of Victory Church, Brooklyn; Queen of All Saints Church, Brooklyn; St. Adalbert, Queens; St. Barbara's Church, Brooklyn; Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Church, Queens; Saint Cecilia's Catholic Church, Brooklyn; St. Michael's Church, Brooklyn; St. Sebastian Church, Queens; St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Queens; Transfiguration, Queens; St. Matthias Church, Queens