Bishop Richard J. Malone will finally be full time in Buffalo.
Pope Francis has appointed a Boston auxiliary bishop to succeed Malone as Bishop of Portland, Maine, freeing Malone to lead the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo without having to keep tabs on Maine’s Catholics.
The Rev. Robert P. Deeley, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston, was selected as Portland’s 12th bishop.
The announcement was made early Wednesday. Deeley, 67, will be installed Feb. 14 in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.
Malone, a Salem, Mass. native who served as Portland bishop for eight years, was appointed to lead the Buffalo diocese on May 29, 2012 and installed as bishop here on Aug. 10, 2012.
Malone, 67, continued to serve as apostolic administrator of the Portland diocese, which covers the entire state of Maine and has about 187,000 Catholics.
The additional assignment required him to travel to Portland about once a month and perform other administrative duties via teleconference.
Malone was in Portland this morning for the announcement.
He said in a statement released by the Portland diocese that he and Deeley entered the seminary together in 1964.
“While our educational journeys and ministerial assignments took us in different directions, our paths have intersected many times in these nearly 40 years we have known each other. And so it is that I can promise the people of our great Diocese of Portland that they will be pastored by a man who is, in St. Timothy’s words, truly ‘strong, loving and wise.’ ” Malone said.
email: jtokasz@buffnews.com
Pope Francis has appointed a Boston auxiliary bishop to succeed Malone as Bishop of Portland, Maine, freeing Malone to lead the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo without having to keep tabs on Maine’s Catholics.
The Rev. Robert P. Deeley, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston, was selected as Portland’s 12th bishop.
The announcement was made early Wednesday. Deeley, 67, will be installed Feb. 14 in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.
Malone, a Salem, Mass. native who served as Portland bishop for eight years, was appointed to lead the Buffalo diocese on May 29, 2012 and installed as bishop here on Aug. 10, 2012.
Malone, 67, continued to serve as apostolic administrator of the Portland diocese, which covers the entire state of Maine and has about 187,000 Catholics.
The additional assignment required him to travel to Portland about once a month and perform other administrative duties via teleconference.
Malone was in Portland this morning for the announcement.
He said in a statement released by the Portland diocese that he and Deeley entered the seminary together in 1964.
“While our educational journeys and ministerial assignments took us in different directions, our paths have intersected many times in these nearly 40 years we have known each other. And so it is that I can promise the people of our great Diocese of Portland that they will be pastored by a man who is, in St. Timothy’s words, truly ‘strong, loving and wise.’ ” Malone said.
email: jtokasz@buffnews.com