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Robert Francis Hennessey (born April 20, 1952) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. On October 12, 2006 he was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of the
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in Massachusetts.


Biography

Robert Hennessey was born in South Boston, Massachusetts, to John and Eileen (''née'' Cahill) Hennessey. His father was a policeman with the Boston Police Department. The second of five children, he has two brothers, John and Daniel, and two sisters, Deborah and Barbara. Hennessey attended St. Augustine Grammar School in South Boston, then was accepted for seventh grade at
Boston Latin School The Boston Latin School is a public exam school in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established on April 23, 1635, making it both the oldest public school in the British America and the oldest existing school in the United States. Its curriculum f ...
. Hennessey then spent the next eight years at St. John's Seminary in Boston. He was ordained a deacon in 1977.


Priesthood

Hennessey was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal
Humberto Medeiros Humberto Sousa Medeiros, GCIH (October 6, 1915 – September 17, 1983) was a Portuguese-American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1970 until his death in 1983, and was created a cardinal in 1973 ...
on May 20, 1978 for the Archdiocese of Boston. After his ordination, he was assigned as parochial vicar at St. Joseph Parish in
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. Hennessey's next assignment was as parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish in
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. In 1983, he was assigned to St. Joseph Parish in
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, staying there for three years. He then entered a graduate studies program at Moreau Seminary at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. Hennessey spent the next six years serving in the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle in Bolivia. Following his return to Boston in 1994, Hennessey became pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Paris in East Boston, Massachusetts, serving there for the next 12 years. In 1995, he became the administrator of Our Lady of the Airways Chapel at Logan International Airport until 1998.


Auxiliary Bishop of Boston

On October 12, 2006, Hennessey was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston and titular bishop of
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. He received his episcopal consecration on December 12, 2006, from Archbishop
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, with Bishops John Boles and Emilio Allué serving as
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His episcopal motto is "'' Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum''" Luke 1:46-55, meaning, "My soul doth magnify the Lord". Hennessey first held the post of episcopal vicar for the Central Pastoral Region of the archdiocese, but was transferred on January 23, 2014 to the Merrimack Region.


See also

* Catholic Church hierarchy * Catholic Church in the United States * Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States * List of Catholic bishops of the United States * Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hennessey, Robert Francis 1952 births Living people Clergy from Boston 21st-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops Saint John's Seminary (Massachusetts) alumni University of Notre Dame alumni Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston