Richard Joseph Malone

Richard Joseph Malone

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Richard Joseph Malone (born March 19, 1946) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the eleventh and current Bishop of Portland.

Biography

Richard Malone was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised in Hamilton and Beverly; he has one sister, Harriet, who teaches Art at St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers. He graduated from St. John's Prep in 1964, and then attended Cardinal O'Connell Seminary in Jamaica Plain, and St. John's Seminary in Boston, from where he obtained with his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and in Divinity, as well as his Master's in Theology. Malone was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Humberto Medeiros on May 20, 1972, and then served as associate pastor of [http://www.catholic-church.org/st-patricks/ St. Patrick Parish] in Stoneham until 1974.

He taught at St. Clement High School in Somerville (1974-1976), and at Xaverian High School in Westwood (1976-1979), where he also served as a chaplain. In 1979, Malone joined the faculty of his "alma mater" of St. John Seminary, teaching religious and theological studies and serving as registrar and dean until 1990. In addition to his duties at the seminary, he was also a part-time chaplain at Wellesley and Regis Colleges, and a teacher at Emmanuel College. He obtained his doctorate in theology from Boston University in 1981, and his Licentiate of Sacred Theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 1990.

He was assigned to the [http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~csa/ Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center] in 1990 as well, as chaplain of [http://www.stpaulparish.org/homepage.html St. Paul Parish] . Within the Archdiocese of Boston, he was made Director of the [http://www.rc.net/boston/religiouseducation/ Office of Religious Education] in 1993, and Secretary for Education in 1995.

On January 27, 2000, Malone was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of "Aptuca" by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following March 1 from Bernard Cardinal Law, with Bishops William Francis Murphy and John Boles serving as co-consecrators. Malone was later named the eleventh Bishop of Portland, Maine, on February 10, 2004, being formally installed as such on March 31 of that same year.

Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, he currently sits on the [http://www.usccb.org/evangelization/ Committee for Evangelization] and serves as chair-elect of the [http://www.usccb.org/education/committeecate.shtml Committee on Catechesis] . The Bishop has also produced and hosted programs for CatholicTV.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmalone.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.portlanddiocese.net/info.php?info_id=14 Diocese of Portland]


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