Born in Leabeg townland, Drumatemple parish, County Roscommon, Ireland (near Ballymoe, County Galway), the son of John and Honoria (Larkin) Flanagan. He apparently believed he was born May 16, 1878 but his birth record gives the date as July 7.

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The True Voice (Omaha, Nebr.), October 21, 1960, p. 1, col. 1 & 2

Funeral Services Set Saturday for Msgr. P. A. Flanagan

Omaha- Funeral services will be held in Holy Angels Church here tomorrow morning for the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick A. Flanagan. The 82-year-old priest died Wednesday evening following a lingering illness.

Presiding at the 10:30 a.m. pontifical Mass will be the Most Rev. Gerald T. Bergan, Archbishop of Omaha. The Office of the Dead will be recited by the archdiocesan clergy at 10:00 a.m.

Msgr. Flanagan was born on May 16, 1878, in County Sligo [sic], Ireland. He attended Summer Hill College in County Sligo and later pursued philosophical and theological studies at All Hallows Seminary in Dublin.

He was ordained to the priesthood on Jan. 31, 1904, for service in the (then) Diocese of Omaha. His first priestly assignment in the Omaha area was as assistant pastor of St. Mary's Parish in O'Neill.

On July 5, 1904, he was appointed assistant at St. Agnes Parish, Omaha. He remained there until October, 1906, when he became director of St. James Orphanage, Omaha. In October, 1910, he was appointed pastor at Holy Angels and remained in that post until the time of his death. His 50th anniversary at Holy Angels was noted in a public celebration several weeks ago.

Msgr. Flanagan served as a member of the Archdiocesan Building Commission and also as an archdiocesan consulter. He also wrote a weekly column for The True Voice, the official archdiocesan newspaper.

In 1948 Pope Pius XII named him a domestic prelate with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor.

The deceased priest was a brother of the late Msgr. Edward Flanagan, founder of Boys Town.