1901 - 1977

Born: Saturday, February 9th, 1901, on Berkley Street, in St.Paul's Parish, Toronto.

Father: Joseph William Sullivan (died in Brampton in 1950)

Mother: Mary Edna Arthurs (died in 1934)

He attended St.Paul's Elementary School, Toronto. He attended Sacred Heart School, Calgary, Alberta, in 1914, and attended St.John's College, Edmonton, Alberta, 1914-1919. In 1919 he joined his family in Chicago, but didn't like it there so returned to Toronto. He worked at the Home Bank in Toronto. (The President of the Bank was in New York and met up with his father who asked him to fire his son so that he would go back to school and "make something of himself" - which the President did.)

He went to St.Michael's College, Toronto, and graduated with an Arts degree in 1925. That same year he entered St.Augustine's Seminary, Scarborough, and was ordained a Priest on May 25, 1929, at St.Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, by Archbishop Neil McNeil. His first appointment was as Assistant at Holy Rosary, Thorold, Ontario, July 1929 - 1931. His second appointment was as Assistant at St.Ann's, Toronto, from November 1931 to February 1932. His third appointment was as Assistant at Guardian Angels, Orillia, Ontario, from March 1932 to August 1933. His fourth appointment was as Assistant at St.Brigid's, Toronto, from October 1933 to August 1937. On March 30, 1937, he was appointed Procurator in Matrimonial cases for the Archdiocese of Toronto. He studied at St.Michael's College, 1938-39, for a Master's degree in Philosophy (helping out at St.Clare's and other Toronto parishes while in school). On August 1, 1939, he was appointed Chaplain for the Armed Forces, living at St.Patrick's Rectory, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In 1940, he joined the Army as a Chaplain, in Halifax. In 1941, he went Overseas with the "Montreal 14th General Hospital" Regiment and was stationed in Horley (Surrey County), England. He left England for the battle area in late October 1943. On November 6, 1943, the ship he was on, Ste. Elena, was torpedoed off North Africa - he was in the water with an Olympic swimmer who managed to save him. He then served in Italy. He returned to England in 1944-45 for posting again with the "Montreal 14th General Hospital".

He returned home in 1945, arriving in New York on December 8th. When he returned to Toronto, Archbishop McGuigan told him to take a long holiday. On June 29, 1946, he was appointed Pastor of St.Mary's, Brampton with St.Joseph's, Streetsville, as its Mission. Brampton was his only Pastorate.

In 1956, Streetsville became an independent parish. He built the new St.Mary's Church in Brampton, which was opened and blessed on December 13, 1964, by His Eminence James Charles Cardinal McGuigan.

Father Sullivan retired in 1972 and lived his last years privately in Caledon East where he suffered from paralysis caused by a stroke. He died on Sunday, March 6, 1977.

On Tuesday, March 8, 1977, his funeral took place at St.Mary's Church, Brampton, and then on to St.John the Evangelist Church, in Albion, in whose cemetery he is buried.