Thomas Edmund Molloy

Thomas Edmund Molloy (September 4, 1885 – November 26, 1956) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

[2] He was later named private secretary to Bishop George Mundelein, accompanying the latter to Illinois following his promotion to Archbishop of Chicago.

[4] After several months in Chicago, he returned to Brooklyn and joined the faculty of St. Joseph's College for Women, serving as spiritual director and professor of philosophy and later president.

[3] During his 35-year-long tenure, the number of Catholics exceeded one million and made the Brooklyn diocese the most populous in the country.

[5] During the Great Depression, he established a labor school where working men could learn the Catholic principles that apply to trade unionism.

[citation needed] In 1956, the year of his death, Molloy Catholic College for Women was established in Rockville Centre.