Robert Francis Hennessey

Robert Francis Hennessey (born April 20, 1952) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston since 2006.

[5][1] After finishing at Notre Dame, Hennessey spent the next six years serving in the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle in a Bolivian parish with a Catholic population of 45,000.

He received his episcopal consecration on December 12, 2006, from Archbishop Seán O'Malley, with Bishops John Boles and Emilio Allué serving as co-consecrators[6][4] Hennessey's episcopal motto is "Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum" Luke 1:46-55, meaning, "My soul doth magnify the Lord".

He warned them that a decline in mass attendance in their churches and the shortage of priests in the archdiocese could result in the merging their parishes.

[6][3] In December 2014, the outdoor nativity scene at Sacred Heart Church in Haverhill, Massachusetts, was vandalized; someone stole the baby Jesus figure and replaced it with the head of a pig.