John Joseph Hennessy

John Joseph Hennessy ( born July 19, 1847 in Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, † July 13, 1920 in Wichita, Kansas, USA) was Bishop of Wichita.

Life

John Joseph Hennessy attended until 1862 the Christian Brothers College. Hennessy studied philosophy at St. Vincent College and Catholic theology at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee. He received on 28 November 1869, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

On August 28, 1888, he was named Pope Leo XIII. Bishop of Wichita. The Archbishop of Saint Louis, Peter Richard Kenrick, donated to him on November 30th of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Dubuque, John Hennessy, and the Bishop of Leavenworth, Louis Mary Fink, OSB. From 1891 to May 1898 John Joseph Hennessy was also Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Concordia.

1898 appointed John Joseph Hennessy, the first diocesan synod of the Diocese of Wichita, a.