Bishop Brendan Oliver Comiskey, SS.CC.

Bishop Emeritus of Ferns

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Aug 1935		Born	Tasson, Clontibret
25 Jun 1961	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
3 Dec 1979	44.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
3 Dec 1979	44.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thibilis
20 Jan 1980	44.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thibilis
4 Apr 1984	48.6	Appointed	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland
6 Apr 2002	66.6	Resigned	Bishop of Ferns, Ireland

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ferns.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi †
Bishop Joseph A. Carroll †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Brendan Oliver Comiskey, SS.CC. (1980)
Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan † (1972)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Desmond Cardinal Connell

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