Joseph Anthony Fiorenza

Archbishop Fiorenza (at the lectern) during a devotion after Hurricane Katrina in an emergency shelter at the Houston Astrodome (2005)

Joseph Anthony Fiorenza (born January 25, 1931 in Beaumont ) is Old Archbishop of Galveston-Houston .

Life

Joseph Anthony Fiorenza was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Galveston on May 29, 1954 .

Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of San Angelo on September 4, 1979 . The Archbishop of San Antonio , Patrick Fernández Flores , ordained him episcopal on October 25 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were John Louis Morkovsky , Bishop of Galveston-Houston, and John Edward McCarthy , Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston.

He was named Bishop of Galveston-Houston on December 6, 1984 and inducted into the office on February 18 of the next year. With the elevation of the diocese to the archbishopric on December 29, 2004, he was appointed Archbishop of Galveston-Houston. On February 28, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related retirement.

Web links

• Entry for Joseph Anthony Fiorenza on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Archbishop of Galveston-Houston 2004-2006	Daniel Nicholas Cardinal DiNardo
John Louis Morkovsky	Bishop of Galveston-Houston 1984-2004	-
Stephen Aloysius Leven	Bishop of San Angelo 1979–1984	Michael David Pfeifer OMI