Bishop Daniel Delany founded the Patrician Brothers in 1808, but it was eighty years before Rome confirmed the Brothers as a Religious Congregation of the Church. The first leader of this new congregation, called the Superior General, was Brother Alphonsus Delaney. The Superior General resides in Ireland; he is elected by his fellow Brothers to lead, support, encourage, and inspire, the congregation in its mission.


Alphonsus Delany
1888 - 1893
1899 - 1906
Anthony O'Neill
1893 - 1899
Jerome Byrne
1906 - 1919


Boniface Carroll
1919 - 1931
Stanislaus Slattery
1931 - 1937
Finbarr Downes
1937 - 1950


Dermont Dunne
1950 - 1956
Francis Redmond
1956 - 1968
Denis Lomasney
1968 - 1974


Robert Ruane
1974 - 80
Patrick Lovegrove
1980 - 86
Aengus Kavanagh
1986 - 1992

Cormac Cummins
1992 - 1998
Philip Mulhall
1998 - 2004
Jerome Ellens
2004 -