Thomas Broderick

Thomas Broderick SMA, (1882 - 1933), was an Irish born priest, a member of the Society of African Missions, who served as Vicars Apostolic of Western Nigeria. From Kilflynn in North Kerry, Broderick was educated at the SMA St. Joseph's College, Wilton, Cork, before completing his clerical training in Lyon, France.[1] Shortly after ordination, he left of Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1906. In 1908 he returned to Ireland as director of the new Sacred Heart College, Ballinafad, Co Mayo, a juniorate(a preparatory secondary school), with the setting up of the Irish SMA seminary in Blackrock, Co. Cork, Broderick was appointed its first Rector. He was ordained Titular Bishop of Petnelissus and Vicar Apostolic of Western Nigerin in 1917, in St. Brendans Cathedral in his native Kerry.[2] officiating over the Benin/Asaba diocese he lived in Asaba.

Bishop Broderick died following an operation in Genoa, in 1933.