Bonaventure Broderick

Bonaventure Finnbarr Francis Broderick (December 25, 1868 – November 18, 1943) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana from 1903 to 1905.

[1] He later ran a gas station for several years until Archbishop Francis Spellman restored his ministry, putting him in service in the Archdiocese of New York.

[2][3][4] Effective December 1, 1939, Spellman assigned the bishop to the chaplaincy of the Frances Schervier Home and Hospital in Riverdale and in 1942 named him vicar for religious in the archdiocese.

The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford sent him to the Pontifical Athenaeum S. Apollinare of Propaganda Fide while a seminarian at the North American College.

[4] On July 25, 1896, Broderick was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Hartford by then Bishop Francesco di Paola Cassetta, who was the Patriarch of Jerusalem and Viceregent of Rome.

In the fall of 1904, Chapelle, the Apostolic Delegate to Cuba went to Rome to inform the Vatican of rumors that Broderick was involved in a conspiracy to share in commissions to sell Church property.

[4] On March 1, 1905, Broderick officially resigned as Auxiliary Bishop due to another misunderstanding with Pope Pius X and the Vatican over the collection of some funds.

Spellman was able to bring an end to the bishop's long exile, and effective December 1, 1939, made him a chaplain of the Frances Schervier Home and Hospital in Riverdale, New York.