Background
Thomas Collins was born in the San Francisco, California and was one of seven children.
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Thomas Collins
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He was educated at Sacred Heart School and studied for the priesthood at seminaries in Mountain View, California and Venard before being ordained a priest on June 21, 1942.
Career
He served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Pando from 1961 to 1968. Brown spent his entire career in the Maryknoll Misson in Bolivia. He did pastoral work in a mission station 150 miles (241 km) from the Mission Center at Riberalta.
Pope John XXIII appointed Collins as the Titular Bishop of Sufetula and Vicar Apostolic of Pando on November 15, 1960.
He was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Hugh Donohoe of San Francisco at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco on March 7, 1961. Collins attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
In 1967 he returned to Mountain View for medical treatment. His resignation for health reasons was accepted by Pope Paul VI in November 1968.
Bishop Collins became a resident at the Ferncliff Nursing Home in Rhinebeck, New New York
He died there on December 7, 1973 at the age of 58. His funeral was celebrated at Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel in the Maryknoll Center and was buried in the Maryknoll Cemetery.
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Bolivia -
Religion
Catholic