Herald Staff Report
(From the issue of 5/12/05)
The following diocesan and religious order priests are celebrating special jubilees this year. Bishop Paul S. Loverde will celebrate a special anniversary Mass on May 17 at St. James Church in Falls Church.
Fifty Years
Fr. Cornelius A. O’Brien
Father Cornelius O'Brien was born Jan. 16, 1932, in Ireland. He attended St. Patrick Seminary in Carlow, Ireland, and was ordained by Bishop Thomas Keogh on June 5, 1955.
He arrived in the Diocese of Arlington in 1976 and was excardinated from the Diocese of Alexandria in Louisiana and incardinated in the Arlington Diocese in 1979.
He was assigned as parochial vicar at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More, 1975-79, and St. Agnes Parish, 1979-80, both in Arlington. He was pastor of St. Lawrence Parish in Alexandria, 1980-83, and St. Timothy Parish in Chantilly, 1983-99. Father O’Brien has been pastor of St. James Parish in Falls Church since 1999.
He completed coursework for a doctorate in philosophy at Catholic University in Washington. From 1976-79, he was director of the Notre Dame Institute, now the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College, in Alexandria. He was also a chaplain at Christendom College in Front Royal.
Father O’Brien was a co-founder of the Adoremus Society, which promotes renewal of the liturgy.
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