Seán Brady

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**His Eminence Seán Cardinal Brady**
Church positions

See	Armagh
Title	Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh
Period in office	1 October 1996 — present
Successor	incumbent
Previous post	Parish Priest
Created cardinal	24 November 2007
Personal
Date of birth	16 August 1939
Place of birth	Drumcalpin

Seán Baptist Cardinal Brady (b. 16 August 1939)(Irish: Seán Ó Brádaigh ) is the current Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. Comprising 61 parishes, 147 churches serving 210,000 Catholics, the Archdiocese of Armagh stretches from Magherafelt in the north to Drogheda in the south and includes most of counties Armagh and Louth and parts of counties Tyrone, Londonderry and Meath. Cardinal Brady was installed as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland on 3 November 1996.

Archbishop Brady was elevated to the cardinalate in the consistory at St. Peter's Basilica on November 24, 2007.^[1]

1 Early career
2 His Profile
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Early career

Cardinal Brady, a native of Drumcalpin, Laragh, County Cavan attended the local primary school, Caulfield National School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ancient Classics at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth in 1960. He then earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome in 1964. He was ordained in February 1964. He received a Doctorate in Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University in 1967.

His first appointment was as professor at his alma mater, St. Patrick's College, Cavan (1967 - 1980). He spent 13 years in the college, teaching a variety of subjects including Latin, Commerce, French, Classics and RE. A keen follower of Gaelic Football, he trained college teams at all age levels.

In 1980 he was appointed Vice-Rector of the Irish College, Rome, and in 1987 became Rector of the College, a post he held until 1993 when he returned to Ireland to become Parish Priest of Castletara, Ballyhaise, County Cavan. On 19 February 1995 he was ordained Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh, and on the retirement of Cahal Cardinal Daly, succeeded as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland on the 1 October 1996. He was installed as Archbishop of Armagh on 3 November 1996.

Following his elevation to the cardinalate he joined Cardinal Daly and Cardinal Connell as one of three living Irish cardinals, a record in Irish history. Senior Vatican figures suggested that the Archbishop's positive contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process will have weighed heavily in Pope Benedict's decision to make him a Cardinal. On his elevation Pope Benedict created him Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta as a symbol of the new cardinal's role in helping the pontiff to minister to the diocese of Rome

Cardinal Brady, as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, is President of the Irish Episcopal Conference.

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Styles of Sean Cardinal Brady


Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Armagh

[edit] His Profile

Cardinal Brady has kept a somewhat lower profile than the recent Archbishops of Armagh, Cahal Daly and Tómas O'Fiach, both of whom developed their reputations during the difficult days of the Troubles and the Hunger Strikes. During a recent court case against the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations Northern Ireland 2006, Cardinal Brady's evidence was regarded as convincing and decisive in having the regulations on harassment thrown out.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, Pope John Paul II chose to make the then Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, Desmond Connell a cardinal, even though Connell was technically number two in church ranking behind Brady. It was the first time in a century that the red hat was given to the Archbishop of Dublin rather than the Archbishop of Armagh. This was rectified in 2007, when Brady was elevated to the cardinalate. In 1984, the then Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Ryan, was nominated a cardinal by John Paul II and transferred to a position in Rome, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. However, Archbishop Ryan died before the consistory that would have elevated him to the cardinalate.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ Holy See Press Office (2007-10-17). "Annuncio di Concistorio per la Creazione di nuovi Cardinali" (in Italian). Press release. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.

Religious titles
Preceded by Cardinal Cahal Daly	Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh Primate of All Ireland 1996	Incumbent
Order of precedence in Northern Ireland
Preceded by Prince Michael of Kent	Gentlemen Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh	Succeeded by The Most Revd Alan Harper OBE Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)