Charles Richard Mulrooney

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, New York, to Patrick and Katherine (née Gibbons) Mulrooney. He attended Cathedral College in Brooklyn from 1921 to 1924, and graduated from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1926. Following his return to New York, he was assigned as a curate at St. Gerard Majella Church in Hollis, where he remained for two years.

On February 24, 1959, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn and titular bishop of Valentiniana by Pope John XXIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 22 from Bishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart, with Bishops James Griffiths and John Joseph Carberry serving as co-consecrators. As an auxiliary bishop, he served as pastor of 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 Queens Village, at age 83.