Edmond Carmody

[1] Carmody was ordained into the priesthood at St. Patrick Seminary in Carlow by Bishop Thomas Keogh on June 8,1957, for the Archdiocese of San Antonio.

After three years at St. Margaret's, Carmody was transferred on September 16, 1960, to be associate pastor at St. Henry's Parish In San Antonio.

On August 29, 1966, he was appointed secretary to the archdiocesan tribunal and chaplain of Incarnate Word High School in San Antonio.

A few days before his scheduled return to Texas in 1988, Archbishop Patrick Flores told him to leave immediately because of his appointment as auxiliary bishop.

[4] When Carmody reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 in 2009, he sent his letter of resignation as bishop of Corpus Christi to Pope Benedict XVI.

[3] After his retirement, Carmody taught a class in church history at John Paul II High School until he returned to Tyler in 2013.