Vincent DePaul Breen
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The Most Reverend Vincent DePaul Breen | |
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Bishop of Metuchen | |
Diocese | Metuchen |
Installed | July 8, 1997 |
Term ended | January 4, 2002 |
Predecessor | Edward Thomas Hughes |
Successor | Paul Gregory Bootkoski |
Orders | |
Ordination | July 15, 1962 |
Consecration | September 8, 1997 |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | March 30, 2003 Long Island, New York | (aged 66)
Vincent DePaul Breen (December 24, 1936 – March 30, 2003) was an American
Breen was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, to Edward and Irene (née Conway) Breen and attended St. Francis Preparatory School.[1] He continued his studies at Cathedral College in Douglaston, Queens. After two years of studies he was sent to Rome where he attended the Pontifical Gregorian University and resided at the Pontifical North American College.
On July 15, 1962, Breen was ordained a priest in the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles, Rome. A year later, he graduated from the North American College, Gregorian University, Rome, with a licentiate in sacred theology.[citation needed]
Breen worked as a parish priest in the
In July 1997, Pope John Paul II appointed Breen to be the Bishop of Metuchen and he was consecrated a bishop by the then Archbishop of Newark, Theodore McCarrick.
Breen died of pneumonia in 2003, aged 66, following a long illness consistent with
References
- ^ 2002 Catholic Almanac p. 417
- ^ "History of the Diocese of Metuchen". Diocese of Metuchen. Retrieved 2008-08-26.