Thomas Edmund Molloy

Thomas Edmund Molloy (September 4, 1885 – November 26, 1956) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as an bishop of Brooklyn in New York from 1921 until his death in 1956. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the diocese from 1920 to 1921. He was given the title of personal archbishop in 1951.

Biography

Early life Thomas Molloy was born on September 4, 1885, in Nashua, New Hampshire, the fourth of the eight children of John and Ellen Molloy. He attended Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire, before entering St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York and graduating in 1904.

Priesthood

Molloy was ordained a priest by Cardinal Pietro Respighi in Rome at the North American College for the Diocese of Brooklyn on September 19, 1908.

After returning to Brooklyn, Molloy joined the faculty of St. Joseph's College for Women, serving as spiritual director and professor of philosophy; he was later named as the college president. It is today St. Joseph's University. He founded the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York, in 1930. He died on November 26, 1956, at his residence in Brooklyn, aged 72. Molloy Catholic College for Women in Rockville Centre, New York. It is today Molloy University.