John M. Smith (bishop)
Catholic University of America | |
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Motto | Servite Domino in lætitia (I will serve God cheerfully) |
Styles of John Mortimer Fourette Smith | ||
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Spoken style | Your Excellency | |
Religious style | Bishop |
John Mortimer Fourette Smith (June 23, 1935 – January 22, 2019) was an American
Biography
Early life
John Smith was born on June 23, 1935, in
John Smith attended
Priesthood
Smith was
Smith earned a
In 1982, Smith became a faculty memberof the
Auxiliary Bishop of Newark
On November 20, 1987, Smith was appointed
Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee
Smith was named the third bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee on June 25, 1991, by John Paul II. He was installed on July 31 of that year.[6]
Coadjutor Bishop and Bishop of Trenton
On November 21, 1995, Smith was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Trenton. He succeeded Bishop John C. Reiss as the ninth bishop of Trenton upon the latter's resignation on June 30, 1997.[7]
In 2002, Smith removed a priest
Retirement and legacy
On June 4, 2010, David M. O'Connell was named coadjutor bishop of the diocese,[8] and on December 1, 2010, Pope Benedict VI accepted Smith's resignation as bishop of Trenton.[2]
John Smith died in Morris Hall Meadows Home in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, on January 22, 2019, following a long illness.[9]
In November 2020, a Vatican investigation into defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick identified Smith as one of three bishops who "provided inaccurate and incomplete information to the Holy See regarding McCarrick’s sexual conduct with young adults" when McCarrick was a candidate for the post of Archbishop of Washington in 2000.[10][11]
See also
- Catholic Church hierarchy
- Catholic Church in the United States
- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of Catholic bishops of the United States
- Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
References
- ^ Bishop John M. Smith Archived April 19, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Catholic Conference. Accessed November 29, 2017. "John M. Smith was born in Orange on June 23, 1935, the oldest son of Mrs. Ethel Charnock Smith and Mortimer F. Smith, now both deceased..... He attended Saint John Parochial Elementary School in Orange, New Jersey, and Saint Benedict Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey."
- ^ a b "Bishop Emeritus John M. Smith, J.C.D., D.D." Diocese of Trenton.
- ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsmith.htm. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
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(help) - ^ "Diocese of Trenton, USA". GCatholic.
- ^ "Report on the Holy See's Institutional Knowledge and Decision Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick" (PDF). Secretariat of State of the Holy See. pp. 88, 156. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
- ^ "Previous Bishops of the Diocese". Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee.
- ^ "Bishop John C. Reiss". Diocese of Trenton.
- ^ "Rinunce e Nomine, 04.06.2010" (Press release) (in Italian). Holy See Press Office. June 4, 2010. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
- ^ "A message from Bishop O'Connell on the death of Bishop Emeritus John M. Smith". Diocese of Trenton.
- ^ Brockhaus, Hannah (November 10, 2020). "McCarrick Report: Vatican details McCarrick's career and decades of sexual misconduct". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
- ^ Fraze, Barb (November 13, 2020). "N.J. bishops' letters helped pave way for McCarrick, led to lack of trust". Crux. Catholic News Service. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
External links
- "Biography of Bishop John M. Smith". Diocese of Trenton. Archived from the original on July 13, 2010. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
- Stewart, Barbara (June 22, 1997). "New Bishop of Trenton Frets Over the Poor and His Priests - NYTimes.com". New York Times. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton Official Site