He attended Maynooth College earning a BSc in physics and mathematics (1934), and was ordained a priest there on 19 June 1938,[2] pursuing postgraduate studies he obtained a doctorate in divinity with a thesis on the Eucharist.[3]
His brother Fr. Thomas Lennon SMA, also went on to become a priest, serving in Africa and Ireland.[4]
In 1940 he went to Carlow College where he was appointed Professor of Moral Theology, he was to stay at Carlow for the next 26 years, becoming Vice-President in 1949 and subsequently President of St. Patrick's Carlow, College from 1956 until 1966.
He was appointed auxiliary Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin (Titular Bishop of Vina) and parish priest of Mountmellick, Co. Laois in July 1966, and in September 1967 Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. He retired on 10 December 1987.
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