Bishop Thomas Joseph Hennen

Msgr. Thomas J. Hennen was born on 4 July 1978 in Ottumwa, Iowa, in the diocese of Davenport. He attended Saint Ambrose University in Davenport, obtaining a bachelor’s degree. He carried out his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical American College of the North, obtaining a licentiate in moral theology at the Higher Institute of Moral Theology “Alphonsian Academy” of Rome. He was ordained a priest on 10 July 2004 for the diocese Davenport. He has held the following offices: parish vicar of the Prince of Peace in Clinton (2005-2010), university chaplain at the University of Iowa (2010-2011), vocational director (2011-2018), chaplain and teacher at the Assumption High School in Davenport (2014-2017), chaplain at Saint Ambrose University (2017-2021), vicar general (since 2020), and rector of the Cathedral (since 2021) of the diocese of Davenport.