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Also known as Kevin J. Farrell, Kevin Joseph Farrell, Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell

Irish-American Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1947)

Person · Open Library

Works
2

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  • Patronos de la JMJ Lisboa 2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1973-08-25
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
149
Total plays
552

One of the freshest and most exciting voices on the New York jazz scene, Kevin Farrell remains one of the east coast’s best kept secrets. Although Kevin is a widely in-demand musician whose acoustic and electric bass playing has graced bandstands all over the world, he has still managed to produce an enormous amount of music as a composer and a bandleader. Recent commissions have included pieces for The Edinburgh Arts Festival, The Blue Rose Trio, members of Transitions Dance Company, and The

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,823x

  2. NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 60,378x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

  4. <i>Coot</i>: model-building tools for molecular graphics

    · 2004 · cited 29,243x

  5. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,431x

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Key facts

Church
Catholic Church
Appointed
15 August 2016
Installed
14 February 2019 (as Camerlengo)
Predecessor
Jean-Louis Tauran (Camerlengo)
Other posts
Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano Martire (2016 ‍ – ‍ present) President of the Pontifical Commission for Confidential Matters (2020 ‍ – ‍ present) Chair of the Pontifical Committee for Investments (2022 ‍ – ‍ present)
Previous posts
Bishop of Dallas (2007 ‍ – ‍ 2016) Auxiliary Bishop of Washington and Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru (2001 ‍ – ‍ 2007)
Ordination
24 December 1978, by Eduardo Francisco Pironio
Consecration
11 February 2002, by Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Created cardinal
19 November 2016, by Pope Francis
Rank
Cardinal deacon
Born
Kevin Joseph Farrell , ( 1947-09-02 ) 2 September 1947 (age 78) , Dublin , Ireland
Motto
State in fide ( Latin for ' Stay firm in the faith ' )

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Joseph
Family name
Farrell
Gender
male
Citizenship
Peru
Place of birth
Dublin
Languages spoken
Spanish
Participant in
2005 conclave
Field of work
gun control
Image
Kevin Joseph Farrell 1.jpg
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date of birth
1947-09-02
Commons category
Kevin Joseph Farrell
consecrator
Leonard Olivier
name in native language
Kevin Joseph Farrell
writing language
Spanish
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Encyclopedic overview

Kevin Joseph Farrell (born 2 September 1947) is an Irish-born American Catholic prelate who has served as the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life since 2016, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since 2019, and president of the Supreme Court of Vatican City since 2024. He served as the regent of Vatican City after the death of Pope Francis on 21 April 2025, and held these interim duties until Leo XIV was elected as pope on 8 May.

After his ordination in 1978, Farrell served as a chaplain and university teacher for several years in Mexico and worked in the United States from 1984 to 2016. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington from 2002 to 2007 and Bishop of Dallas from 2007 to 2017. He was made a cardinal in 2016.

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