William John Brennan [SEP] position held
William John Brennan
William John Brennan (16 February 1938 – 31 August 2013) was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1960, Brennan was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wagga Wagga, Australia in 1984. Brennan resigned in 2002 due to illness.
On 31 August 2013, Brennan, at the age of 75, died at Little Sisters of the Poor Nursing Home in Randwick, New South Wales. His funeral service was held in St Michael's Cathedral, Wagga Wagga and
mock trials in America and Britain.
More than a thousand people attended the moot court case sponsored by American University in 1987. Three US Supreme Court justices —John Paul Stevens, Harry Blackmun and William J. Brennan—heard arguments in favor of the orthodox view of Shakespearean authorship and the Oxfordian theory that attributes the works to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604). Although the justices held in favor of the traditional account of authorship, Justice Stevens later wrote an article supporting Ogburn's position, "The