Brian Farrell (bishop)

Brian Farrell LC ( born February 8, 1944 in Dublin, Ireland ) is a Curia Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Brian Farrell In 1961 the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in and studied at the religious school of the Legionaries of Christ in Salamanca, Spain. At the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he studied philosophy and at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic theology. In the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Philip martyred in Rome he received on 26 November 1969, the sacrament of Holy Orders. From 1970 to 1976 he was Master of Novices his congregation in Connecticut, USA. After Farrell in 1981 received his doctorate at the Gregorian University in Rome with a thesis on dogmatics as a doctor of theology, he entered the service of the State Secretariat on 1 October 1981. He was head of the English section 1999 to 2002.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Abitinae and appointed him on 19 December 2002 as secretary to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He received his episcopal consecration, the Pope himself on 6 January 2003 in St. Peter's Basilica; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Leonardo Sandri and Antonio Maria Vegliò.

In the presence of about 4,300 guests Brian Farrell donated 59 religious of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ on December 12, 2009 in the Roman basilica of St. Paul outside the walls of the priesthood.

His brother Kevin Farrell Bishop of Dallas and Grand Chancellor of the University of Dallas.