James Joseph O'Brien


James Joseph O'Brien was a British clergyman and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the Archbishopric of Westminster.

Biography

On 12 June 1954 O'Brien received the priestly ordination in Westminster.
Pope Paul VI appointed him as auxiliary bishop in the archbishopric of Westminster on 28 June 1977 and as titular bishop of Manaccenser in North Africa. The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, gave him the bishop's ordination on 21 September of that year. Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops in Westminster Basil Christopher Butler, Victor Guazzelli, Gerald Mahon, Philip James Benedict Harvey, and David Every Konstant.
On 30 June 2005 Pope Benedict XVI accepted his age-related resignation.