Charles Richard Mulrooney (January 13, 1906—August 5, 1989) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1959 to 1981.

Biography

Mulrooney was born in Brooklyn,

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, to Patrick and Katherine (née Gibbons) Mulrooney. He attended Cathedral College in Brooklyn from 1921 to 1924, and graduated from

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, Maryland, in 1926. He then studied at th
Sulpician Seminary
of the

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in Washington, D.C., where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree. He was ordained to the priesthood in Washington on June 10, 1930. Following his return to New York, he was assigned as a

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a
St. Gerard Majella Church
in

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, where he remained for two years. He taught at Cathedral College from 1932 until 1952, when he became its

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. On February 24, 1959, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn and titular bishop of ''Valentiniana'' by Pope John XXIII. He received his

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on the following April 22 from Bishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart, with Bishops James Griffiths and John Joseph Carberry serving as

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. As an auxiliary bishop, he served as pastor o
St. Jerome's Church
in Flatbush from 1959 to 1972. Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, he resigned as auxiliary bishop on January 13, 1981. He died at the Queen of Peace Residence in

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, at age 83.

References

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