William Dermott Molloy McDermott

William Dermott Molloy McDermott , also Monseñor Demetrio (born May 10, 1930 in Dublin , † August 19, 2013 ), was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Huancavelica .

Life

William Dermott Molloy McDermott studied Philosophy, Theology and Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) at St. Patrick's College in Carlow . He was ordained a priest on June 5, 1955 and served in the Diocese of Birmingham , Alabama. For over fourteen years he was a pastor in Peru, including in Huancarama. He learned and studied the local Quechua . He translated parts of the Bible and contributed to the translation of the missal , the Roman Ritual and the Catechism into Quechua.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on May 19, 1976 auxiliary bishop in Huancavelica and titular bishop of Thucca in Mauretania . The Bishop of Abancay , Enrique Pélach y Feliú , ordained him episcopal on July 4th of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Alcides Mendoza Castro , Archbishop ad personam of the Peruvian military ordinariate , and Florencio Coronado Romaní , Bishop of Huancavelica. He campaigned against poverty and the terrorism of the Sendero Luminoso .

Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Huancavelica on January 14, 1982. In Huancavelica he founded the world's highest catholic seminary at over 3,700 m above sea ​​level in the central Peruvian Andes . On June 18, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related retirement.

Awards and honors

• Medalla de Oro de Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo (Peru, 2006)

Fonts

• with Enrique Pélach y Feliú : Santos evangelios y hechos de los apostoles. Primera versión católica en quechua y castellano . Editorial Andina, Lima 1974.

Web links

• Entry for William Dermott Molloy McDermott on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Obituary ( Memento of May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), Peruvian news agency Andina , accessed on August 20, 2013

predecessor	Office	successor
Florencio Coronado Romaní CSsR	Bishop of Huancavelica 1982-2005	Isidro Barrio Barrio