Thomas Joseph Connolly

Thomas Joseph Connolly ( born July 18, 1922 in Tonopah ) is a retired bishop of Baker.

Life

Thomas Joseph Connolly received on 8 April 1947, the ordination to the priesthood for the Diocese of Reno.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on May 4, 1971 for the Bishop of Baker. The Archbishop of Portland in Oregon, Robert Joseph Dwyer, donated to him on June 30th of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Thomas Kiely Gorman, Bishop Emeritus of Dallas -Fort Worth, and Michael Joseph Green, Bishop of Reno.

On 19 November 1999, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.