Rev Bernard Dennehy CSsR
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Bernard
Middle Names:
John
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Surname:
Dennehy
Order:
CSsR
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Country of Birth:
New Zealand
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Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Auckland
Country of Death:
New Zealand
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Panmure, Auckland
Country of Burial:
New Zealand
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Biographical Notes
Ballarat, etc, Vic
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Michael Rombouts, editor, Death notices in the New Zealand Tablet, May 1873 to Apr 1996 (with obituary notices for Otago and Southland), 2 volumes (Dunedin, NZ: self-published, 2000):
Dennehy Rev. Bernard, C.SS.R. (d 16 May 1966) at Auckland; born 1910 youngest son of the late Michael and Margaret Dennehy; brother of the late Jeremiah, and Sr. Cyprian, O.P., Sr. Callista, O.P. (Invercargill), Michael (Dunedin), Joseph (Hamilton), Vincent (Auckland) and the Rev. Cecil, C.SS.R. (Perth); he was brought up in the Dunedin suburb of St Kilda; two of his sisters, Kathleen and Gabrielle, became Dominican Sisters, well known in the south, Sr. Cyprian, O.P. who predeceased him, and Mother Callista, O.P., now in Invercargill; his brother Cecil, is a Redemptorist priest now living in Perth, Western Australia; Bernard Dennehy was educated in Dunedin by the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers and then followed his brother, Cecil, to the Redemptorist Minor Seminary, at Galong, N.S.W.; on 2 Feb 1933 he made his religious vows and on 13 Mar 1938 he was ordained a priest; for many years Fr. Dennehy filled the office of professsor in the Redemptorist Minor Seminary at Galong and later was much sought after for missions and retreats in Australia and N.Z.; in the 3 years, 1962 to 1965, prior to its becoming a parish, he was superior of the Redemptorist Monastery of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glendowie, Auckland.