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Robert McElroy was born into a Catholic family in San Francisco, California, on February 5, 1954. [1] One of five children, he was born to Walter and Roberta McElroy. [2] He grew up in San Mateo County. [3]
Cardinal Robert McElroy, 70, has been the bishop of San Diego since 2015. He will replace Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who has led the archdiocese of Washington since 2019 and is retiring.
Early in Trump’s first term, then-Bishop McElroy gave a speech in Modesto, California, specifically referencing Trump and urging Catholics to become “disruptors” of the anti-immigrant agenda.
An only child, McCarrick was born into an Irish American family in New York City to Theodore E. and Margaret T. (née McLaughlin) McCarrick. [16] His father was a ship captain who died from tuberculosis when McCarrick was three years old, [17] and his mother then worked at an automobile parts factory in The Bronx. [18]
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Coat of arms as auxiliary bishop of San Diego. On April 19, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Dolan as an auxiliary bishop of San Diego and titular bishop of Uchi Maius. [6] [8] On June 8, 2017, he was consecrated a bishop by Bishop Robert W. McElroy at St. Thérèse of Carmel Church in Del Mar, California, with Bishops Robert Brom and Richard Garcia acting as co-consecrators.
Bishop Alfred A. Schlert of the Diocese of Allentown issued a video apology on behalf of the Allentown Diocese. [59] In his apology, Schlert stated that most of the incidents of sexual abuse date back decades and that most of the accused priests in the diocese were either dead or no longer active in the ministry and that the diocese has had a ...
The National Prayer Breakfast, one of the most visible and long-standing events that brings religion and politics together in Washington, is splitting from the private religious group that had ...