Michael Browne (cardinal)

Cardinal Michael Browne OP ( born May 6, 1887 in Grangemokler, Ireland, † March 31, 1971 in Rome ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

The 1887 Grangemokler ( Diocese of Waterford, Ireland) was born Browne visited among others the Rockwell College / Ireland, the convent of San Clemente / Rome and the theological faculty in Freiburg / Switzerland. On 21 May 1910 he was ordained a priest. From 1919 to 1932 he was a member of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the years 1925 to 1930 as rector. 1941 to 1951 he was standing in front of the convent of San Clemente / Rome. The Dominican Order, he headed from 1955 to 1962 as the 80th successor of St. Dominic.

Browne was included as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Paolo alla Regola in the College of Cardinals on 19 March 1962. On April 5, 1962, he was named by Pope John XXIII. Titular Archbishop of Idebessus and gave him on 19 April 1962, the episcopal ordination.

Cardinal Browne was in his time a respected theologian who represented the conservative wing of the Second Vatican Council, together with the Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani, Giuseppe Siri and Ernesto Ruffini and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The council events, he joined an impressive and eloquent way again for the prepared text of the theological commission and became one of the most important critics of the Declaration on Religious Freedom.

Michael Browne died on 31 March 1971 in Rome and was buried in the Dominican convent of Tallaght in Dublin.

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