Bishop Brendan Oliver Comiskey, SS.CC. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ferns, Ireland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Aug 1935		Born
25 Jun 1961	25.8	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
28 Apr 2025	89.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ferns, Ireland

MicroData Summary
Brendan Oliver Comiskey
Bishop Brendan Oliver Comiskey SS.CC.
(born 13 Aug 1935, died 28 Apr 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Ferns

Event Place
Birth Place Tasson, Clontibret, Diocese of Clogher
Ordained Bishop St. Andrew, Church, Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin
Death Place Louth County, Hospital, Dundalk, Archdiocese of Dublin
Buried Place (Original) Sacred Heart, St Johns Drive, Church, Clondalkin, Archdiocese of Dublin

a priest for 63.8 years
a bishop for 45.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan †
Archbishop of Dublin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi †
Titular Archbishop of Binda
Bishop Joseph A. Carroll †
Titular Bishop of Quaestoriana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan † (1972)
Archbishop of Dublin
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Paul Desmond Tighe (1983)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Desmond Cardinal Connell † (1988)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q705828

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 61, Number 4,686
d: CB, 28 Apr 2025

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