Baltimore-born Bishops to other places

The Holy Father has accepted the retirement of the Most Reverend Michael A. Saltarelli as Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, and has named as the new Bishop the Most Reverend William Francis Malooly, up to now Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore.

Bishop Malooly was born in 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland, and there attended Saint Ursula Parochial School, Saint Charles Minor Seminary, and Saint Mary's Seminary (where he completed his philosophical and theological studies. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore on May 7 1970 by his maternal uncle the Most Reverend T. Austin Murphy, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore.
He served as Assistant Pastor at Saint Joseph’s Parish in the town of Texas, Maryland, from 1970 to 1976 and then at Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Baltimore from 1976 to 1981. In 1978 the priests of the Archdiocese elected him to the Priest Personnel Board, for which he was chosen as Vice President. He served as Associate Administrator and then Administrator of the Archdiocesan Youth Retreat Center from 1981 to 1984. In 1984 he was named Director of the Office for Clergy. In 1989 he was chosen as Chancellor and Vicar General of the Archdiocese. He also directed of the Archdiocese’s preparations for the Holy Father’s pastoral visit to Baltimore in 1995. He was named Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore December 12, 2000 and consecrated the following March.

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The Holy Father has named as Bishop of Saint Thomas, Virginia Islands, Monsignor Herbert A. Bevard, a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, up to now Pastor of Saint Athanasius Parish in Philadelphia.

Bishop-elect Bevard was born in Baltimore in 1946. He attended Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia where he earned a Masterr of Divinity. He was ordained a priest May 20, 1972. He served as Parochial Vicar of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish and Chaplain at Penn State University from 1972 to 1973 and then Parochial Vicar of Saint Robert Parish and Chaplain at Widener University from 1978 to 1983. He then served as Parochial Vicar of Saint Richard Parish in Bensalem from 1983 to 1989 and at the Metropolitan Tribunal from 1985 to 1989. His last stint as Parochial Vicar was at Saint Anastasia in Newtown Square from 1989 to 1994. He has been Pastor of Saint Athanasius Parish in Philadelphia since 1994. He is a member of the Interparochial Cooperation Commission, the Pastors’ Review Board, the College of Consultors and the Presbyteral Council.