Robert Deeley

His Excellency, The Most Reverend Robert Peter Deeley
Bishop of Portland
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Boston
Diocese	Portland
Appointed	December 18, 2013
Installed	February 14, 2014
Predecessor	Richard Joseph Malone
Other posts	Titular Bishop of Kearney
Orders
Ordination	July 14, 1973 by Humberto Sousa Medeiros
Consecration	January 4, 2013 by Seán Patrick O'Malley, John Clayton Nienstedt, and Robert C. Evans
Personal details
Born	(1946-06-18) June 18, 1946 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alma mater	The Catholic University of America North American College Pontifical Gregorian University
Motto	VERITATEM FACERE IN CARITATE (English: Living the truth in love,(Ephesians 4:15)

Ordination history of Robert Deeley
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Sean Patrick Card. O’Malley (Boston)
Date of consecration	January 4, 2013

Styles of Robert Peter Deeley

Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Robert Peter Deeley (June 18, 1946) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church currently serving as the Bishop of the Diocese of Portland, Maine.

Biography

Early life and education

Robert Peter Deeley was born on June 18, 1946 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Micheal and May Deeley, both immigrants from County Galway, Ireland. In 1964, after graduating from Matignon High School in Cambridge, Deeley went to Cardinal O’Connell Minor Seminary in Jamaica Plain.^[1]

After two years, he was awarded the Basselin Foundation Scholarship and attended The Catholic University of America, where he graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts.^[2] He then continued studies at the North American College in Rome, earning a Bachelor of Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1972.

Ordination and ministry

On July 14, 1973, Deeley was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Boston by Humberto Cardinal Medeiros^[3] in his home parish of Sacred Heart in Watertown.^[1]

Following ordination, Deeley was an associate pastor and then Secretary to the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Boston. In 1981, he returned to the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he earned a Licentiate of Canon Law in 1983, and a Doctor of Canon Law summa cum laude in 1986. His dissertation was entitled: "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."^[2]

Back in Boston, he served in various capacities in the Metropolitan Tribunal before being called to work in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger in 2004. This was a job he kept until 2010, when he returned to Boston and was named Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia in 2011.^[1] He was named a Prelate of Honor in 1995 by Pope John Paul II. giving him the title of "monsignor."^[2] He was also president of the Canon Law Society of America in 2000.^[4]

Auxiliary Bishop of Boston

On November 9, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named then-Msgr. Deeley Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of Kearney. He was consecrated on January 4, 2013 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross by Seán Cardinal O'Malley. Archbishop John Nienstedt of St.Paul-Minneapolis and Bishop Robert Evans of Providence, who were both classmates of Deeley's at the North American College, served as co-consecrators.^[3] Deeley chose "Veritatem facere in caritate" ("Living the truth in love") from St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians as his Episcopal motto, because he believes that is "the heart of our challenge in the Church today."^[5]

Deeley is the third President of the Canon Law Society of America to be named bishop by Pope Benedict XVI, joining Bishop Randolph Calvo of Reno and Bishop Mark Bartchak of Altoona-Johnstown.^[4]

Bishop of Portland, Maine

Bishop Deeley was installed as bishop of the Diocese of Portland in Maine on February 14, 2014 in a Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland on February 14, 2014.^[6]

References

External links

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland official website

Episcopal succession

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Richard Joseph Malone	Bishop of Portland 2014–Present	Incumbent
Preceded by –	Auxiliary Bishop of Boston 2012–2013	Succeeded by –
Preceded by Felipe de Jesús Estévez	Roman Catholic Titular See of Kearney 2012–2013	Vacant

Diocese of Portland

Bishops	Ordinaries David William Bacon James Augustine Healy William Henry O'Connell Louis Sebastian Walsh John Gregory Murray Joseph Edward McCarthy Daniel Joseph Feeney Peter Leo Gerety Edward Cornelius O'Leary Joseph John Gerry Richard Joseph Malone Robert Deeley Auxiliary Amédée Wilfrid Proulx

Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Basilica Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Lewiston Parish churches Holy Cross Church, Lewiston St. David Church, Madawaska St. Denis Church, North Whitefield St. Mary's Church, Augusta St. Patrick's Church, Newcastle Former churches St. Joseph Church, Lewiston St. Patrick's Church, Lewiston St. Cyril and St. Methodius Church, Lisbon Falls

Education	Higher Education St. Joseph's College High Schools Catherine McAuley High School, Portland Cheverus High School, Portland Saint Dominic Academy, Auburn

Priests	Denis Mary Bradley Charles M. Murphy

Miscellany	Mercy Hospital, Portland

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