Robert Deeley

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Robert Peter Deeley (born June 18, 1946 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA ) is a Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Portland .

Life

Robert Deeley studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and at the Pontifical North America College in Rome. He received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Boston on July 14, 1973 . First he worked as a chaplain in Needham and from 1978 as secretary of the diocesan court. From 1981 he studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University , where he obtained his licentiate in 1983 and in 1985 after completing his dissertation The mandate for those who teach theology in institutes of higher studies. An interpretation of the meaning of canon 812 of the Code of Canon Law zum Dr. iur. can. received his doctorate . From 1985 he was a diocesan judge and later a vice-official in Boston. From 1988 to 1991 he was diocesan chaplain of the Knights of Columbus and then until 1999 spiritual director of the Catholic Lawyers Guild . In 1999, Deeley became a pastor in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy .

From 2004 to 2011 Deeley served in Rome in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . After returning to Boston in 2011, he was appointed Vicar General.

On November 9, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . the titular bishop of Kearney and auxiliary bishop in Boston. The Archbishop of Boston, Seán Patrick Cardinal O'Malley OFMCap , ordained him episcopal on January 4 of the next year ; Co- consecrators were John Clayton Nienstedt , Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis , and Robert Charles Evans , Auxiliary Bishop in Providence .

Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Portland on December 18, 2013. The inauguration took place on February 14, 2014.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nomina del Vescovo di Portland (USA) , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin, December 18, 2013.