Matthew Francis Brady
Matthew Francis Brady was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Burlington in Vermont and bishop of the Diocese of Manchester in New Hampshire.
Biography
Early life
Matthew Brady was born on January 15, 1893, in Waterbury, Connecticut, to John and Catherine Brady. After attending St. Thomas Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, he studied at the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Leuven, Belgium. Returning to the United States, Brady entered St. Bernard's Seminary in Rochester, New York.Priesthood
Brady was ordained to the priesthood in Hartford for the Diocese of Hartford by Bishop John Nilan in Hartford on June 10, 1916. After the American entry into World War I in 1917, Brady served as a chaplain in the United States Army from 1916 to 1918. After his discharge from the army, he did pastoral work in the Diocese of Hartford, and served as a professor at St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Connecticut, from 1922 to 1932.Bishop of Burlington
On July 30, 1938, Brady was appointed the fourth bishop of Burlington by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on October 26, 1938, from Archbishop Amleto Cicognani, with Bishops Maurice F. McAuliffe and Joseph McCarthy serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vermont.Brady organized branches in his diocese of the Boy Scouts of America and the Catholic Youth Organization, and erected about a dozen new parishes in Fairfax, Gilman, North Troy, Orleans, and South Burlington, all in Vermont.