Thomas Francis Kennedy (bishop)

Thomas F. Kennedy
Most Reverend; Thomas F. Kennedy
	Rector of the Pontifical North American College
Church	Catholic Church
See	Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria
Appointed	June 17, 1915
Term ended	August 28, 1917
Orders
Ordination	July 24, 1887; by Lucido Parocchi
Consecration	December 29, 1907; by Girolamo Maria Gotti
Personal details
Born	March 23, 1858; Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, USA
Died	August 28, 1917 (aged 59); Rome, Italy

Thomas Francis Kennedy (March 23, 1858 – August 28, 1917) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the Rector of the Pontifical North American College from 1901–1917.

Biography

Early life and education

Thomas Kennedy was born in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. His father, Patrick, worked as a laborer.[1] He was educated in a local public school, St. Matthew's School and Treemont Seminary. Kennedy became a teacher at St. Matthew's High School at age 17 and then later became the principal. He entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary to study for the priesthood and continued his studies in Rome at the Pontifical North American College.

Kennedy was ordained a priest in Rome for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on July 24, 1887 by Cardinal Lucido Parocchi, the Vicar General of Rome. After he returned to Pennsylvania, Kennedy joined the faculty at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. He was named the Rector of the Pontifical North American College on June 14, 1901.[2]

Bishop

Pope Pius X appointed him as the Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Honoriade on December 16, 1907. He was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal Girolamo Maria Gotti, O.C.D., the Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith, on December 29, 1907. The principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Patrick Riordan of San Francisco and Bishop William Giles, Rector of the English College in Rome.

Archbishop

Kennedy was given the personal title of Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV on June 17, 1915. At the same time he was changed to the titular see of Seleucia in Isauria. He died in Rome on August 28, 1917 at the age of 59,[3][4] and was buried in the Cimitero Comunale Monumentale Campo Verano in Rome.[5]

Portrait

In May 1907, whilst painting his first portrait of Pope Pius X, the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury completed the first of two portraits of Bishop Kennedy whom he had befriended. This bust-length oval portrait, described by the New York Evening Mail as 'warmly tinted and attractive', was exhibited in January and February 1908 at Knoedler's Gallery in New York, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and in Philadelphia, before apparently being sent to Kennedy's two sisters, Theresa and Margaret, who apparently later gave it to the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, where it hangs today outside the Eakins Room. Müller-Ury's second much-larger half-length standing portrait of Kennedy was executed in 1911 when he was in Rome painting Pope Pius X again (which he presented to the Catholic University in Washington, D.C.) and remains at the North American College in Rome's Graduate House.

Legacy

Archbishop Kennedy's birthplace (built c.1776), at 113 W. Germantown Pike, is a contributing property in the Plymouth Meeting Historic District.

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References

Kennedy, Joseph S. "Noted Archbishop Began As The Child Of An Irish Laborer Thomas Francis Kennedy, Born In Conshohocken In 1858, Strengthened The Bond Between Rome And U.S. Catholics". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
Brann, Henry A., "American College, The, in Rome", The Catholic Encyclopedia, (Charles George Herbermann, ed.), Encyclopedia Press, 1907 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
"Bishop Thomas Francis Kennedy". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
"Archbishops who are not Ordinaries of Sees". Giga-Catholic. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
"Rev Thomas Francis Kennedy". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2014-02-07.

Academic offices
Preceded by William Henry O'Connell	Rector of the Pontifical North American College 1901–1917	Succeeded by Charles O'Hern
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by –	— TITULAR — Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Honoriade 1907–1915	Succeeded by –
Preceded by –	— TITULAR — Titular Bishop of Seleucia in Isauria 1915–1917	Succeeded by –

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[philly-1] Kennedy, Joseph S. "Noted Archbishop Began As The Child Of An Irish Laborer Thomas Francis Kennedy, Born In Conshohocken In 1858, Strengthened The Bond Between Rome And U.S. Catholics". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2014-02-07.

[2] Brann, Henry A., "American College, The, in Rome", The Catholic Encyclopedia, (Charles George Herbermann, ed.), Encyclopedia Press, 1907 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[hierarchy-3] "Bishop Thomas Francis Kennedy". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2014-02-07.

[gcatholic-4] "Archbishops who are not Ordinaries of Sees". Giga-Catholic. Retrieved 2014-02-07.

[find-5] "Rev Thomas Francis Kennedy". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2014-02-07.

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