Conference Keynote

The keynote for the 2008 Ministry Conference will be Bishop Kevin J. Farrell. Bishop Farrell will be giving sessions on Friday, October 24 at 9:30 am and on Saturday, October 25 at 9:30 am in Spanish and 10:45 am in English. Bishop Farrell will also be celebrating closing mass for the conference on Saturday at 4:00 pm.

Bishop Kevin J. Farrell

Bishop Kevin Joseph Farrell

Bishop Kevin Joseph Farrell was born in Dublin, Ireland in September 1947. The second of four boys, he graduated from the Irish Christian Brothers High School in Drimnagh, Dublin. He entered the novitiate of the Legionnaires of Christ in 1966 and received an M.A. in Philosophy and an S.T.L. in Theology after studies in Rome. After being ordained to the priesthood in Rome on December 24, 1978, then-Father Farrell was assigned to be the chaplain for the University of Monterrey in Mexico. While there, he conducted seminars in bioethics and social ethics. Bishop Farrell was appointed Seventh Bishop of Dallas on March 6, 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. He was installed as Bishop of Dallas May 1, 2007, succeeding Bishop Charles V. Grahmann who served as Sixth Bishop of Dallas from July 1990 until his resignation in July, 2007.