Background
Broderick, Bonaventure Finnbarr was born on December 25, 1868 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Harris and Margaret (Healy) Broderick.
Broderick, Bonaventure Finnbarr was born on December 25, 1868 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Harris and Margaret (Healy) Broderick.
Broderick completed his undergraduate seminary studies at Saint Charles College in Ellicott City, Maryland. In 1897, Broderick earned his Doctor of Philosophy. He also earned a Doctor of Theology at the same college.
While restored to the Curia, Broderick died before he became a diocesan ordinary. The bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford sent him to the Pontifical Athenaeum South. Apollinare of Propaganda Fide while a seminarian at the North American College. On July 25, 1896, Broderick was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford by then Bishop Francesco di Paola Cassetta, who was the Patriarch of Jerusalem and Viceregent of Rome.
Broderick returned to the diocese and was assigned as a pastor in West Hartford, Connecticut.
From 1898 to 1900, he was a faculty member at Saint Thomas Seminary at Hartford, Connecticut. When his former Italian instructor, Bishop Donato Sbarretti was appointed as the ordinary of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana, he appointed Broderick as his secretary.
On June 25, 1900, Broderick became the administrator of Saint Francis de Sales Church in Cuba. He would later become the administrator of San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary.
While in Cuba, Broderick had to settle claims against the United States government because of damage done to church property during the Spanish–American War.
lieutenant was unclear why his superiors were angry with Broderick. On September 7, 1903, Broderick was appointed as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana and Titular Bishop of Iuliopolis. On October 28, 1903 he was consecrated as the Coadjutor Bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana.
His Principal Consecrator was Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle with Archbishop Francisco de Paula Barnada y Aguilar as the Principal Company-Consecrator.
Resignation
On March 1, 1905, Broderick resigned as the Coadjutor Bishop due to a misunderstanding with Pope Pius X and the Vatican over the collection of some funds. Restoration to episcopal life
While doing some archdiocesan business in Millbrook, New York, New York Archbishop Francis Spellman found Broderick running a gas station in Millbrook where he also wrote a weekly column for a local newspaper.
In November 1939, the Vatican asked Spellman to rehabilate Broderick and Spellman complied. Broderick resumed his public role as a bishop and was made a chaplain of a hospital in Riverdale, New New York
On November 18, 1943, Broderick died with the title of Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of the San Cristóbal de la Habana Archdiocese.
Member The Arcadia (Rome), being first American so honored. Member Collegium Cultorum Martyrum, Rome.