Raymond Augustine Kearney

Raymond Augustine Kearney (September 25, 1902 – October 1, 1956) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1935 until his death in 1956.

Biography Raymond Kearney was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, one of seven children of Joseph Peter and Nora Isabelle (née Burke) Kearney. He and his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, while he was still an infant. He received his early education at the parochial school of the Church of the Nativity, where he served as an altar boy.

Kearney attended Brooklyn Preparatory School before studying at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923. He studied for the priesthood in Rome at the Pontifical North American College and the Propaganda University, receiving a doctorate in theology in 1927. Following his return to Brooklyn, he was assigned as a curate at Queen of All Saints Church, where he remained for two months. In 1950, he was elected chairman of the Bishops' Committee on Motion Pictures, which supervised the work of the Legion of Decency. He was also recognized as an authority on canon law.

Kearney died from a heart attack at age 54.