Thomas Kiely Gorman

Thomas Kiely Gorman (August 30, 1892 – August 16, 1980) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Reno from 1931 to 1952, and Bishop of Dallas from 1954 to 1969.

Thomas Gorman was born in Pasadena, California, to John Joseph and Mary Elizabeth (née Kiely) Gorman. He entered St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park in 1910, shortly before his father's death, and was transferred to St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1914. Gorman was ordained to the priesthood on June 23, 1917.

After studying at the Catholic University of America for a year, he returned to California and did pastoral work in the Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles until 1922. Gorman graduated in 1925 from the University of Louvain, from where he obtained a doctorate in history. He was editor of the Tidings, a diocesan newspaper in Los Angeles, from 1926 to 1931.

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