Bonaventure Broderick

right Bonaventure Finnbarr Francis Broderick (December 25, 1868 – November 18, 1943) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana from 1903 to 1905. He later ran a gas station for several years until Archbishop Francis Spellman restored his ministry, putting him in service in the Archdiocese of New York.

Effective December 1, 1939, Spellman assigned the bishop to the chaplaincy of the Frances Schervier Home and Hospital in Riverdale and in 1942 named him vicar for religious in the archdiocese.

Episcopacy On September 7, 1903, Broderick was appointed by Pope Pius X as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana and Titular Bishop of Iuliopolis.

Restoration to episcopal life On the eve of Francis Spellman's May 23, 1939, installation as Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Amleto Cicognani, the apostolic delegate to the United States, asked Spellman to look into the matter of Broderick's long exile.

In 1942, at the dedication of a new wing to the Schervier facility, Spellman said: "The greatest thing I have done for my soul and the greatest gift I have brought to the people of the archdiocese has been in bringing Bishop Broderick to New York." Also in 1942, Spellman named Broderick the vicar for religious in the archdiocese.

James K. Hanna has written a biography of Broderick, titled "The Remarkable Life of Bishop Bonaventure Broderick: Exile, Redemption, and a Gas Station" (Serif Press, 2022). The Remarkable Life of Bishop Bonaventure Broderick

Final years and death On November 18, 1943, Broderick died with the title of Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the San Cristóbal de la Habana Archdiocese. His mortal remains are buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York in the Sisters of St. Francis plot.