Patrician Brothers

Several foundations were made, among them those of Sydney, to which archdiocese the Brothers were invited by Cardinal Moran;[6][7] and that of Madras in India in 1875, undertaken at the request of Bishop Stephen Fennelly.

However, in 1885 the Brothers made application to the Holy See for the approval of the institute, to constitute a central governance board and to establish a common novitiate.

Sounding opinions from the bishops in whose dioceses the Brothers were established, Pope Leo XIII provisionally approved the congregation for five years by a Rescript dated 6 January 1888, and, on 8 September 1893,[9] he issued a decree of final confirmation.

The Brothers of the Provinces of Ireland, India, and Australia, were now under the authority of their elected Congregation Leader and his Council.

[10] As of 2022, there were 160 Patrician Brothers serving in seven countries: Ireland (1808), India (1875), Australia (1883), USA (1948), Kenya (1961), Papua New Guinea (1968), Ghana (2008).

A teaching Patrician Brother in his habit on a stained glass window in Tullow, designed and created by George Walsh.