Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Henry E. Donnelly | |
Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
See: | Titular See of Tymbrias |
Appointed: | September 6, 1954 |
Term: | October 26, 1954 - November 4, 1967 |
Ordination: | August 17, 1930 |
Consecration: | June 13, 1968 |
Consecrated By: | Edward Mooney |
Birth Date: | August 28, 1904 |
Birth Place: | Hudson, Michigan |
Henry Edmund Donnelly (August 28, 1904 – November 4, 1967) was an American Bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1954 to 1967.
Born in Hudson, Michigan, Henry Donnelly was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Detroit on August 17, 1930. On September 6, 1954 Pope Pius XII appointed him as the Titular Bishop of Tymbrias and Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit. He was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal Edward Mooney on October 26, 1954. The principal co-consecrators were Bishop Allen Babcock of Grand Rapids and Detroit auxiliary bishop Alexander M. Zaleski. He continued to serve as an auxiliary bishop until his death on November 4, 1967, at the age of 63.[1] [2]