Joseph Thomas Daley
William Henry Keeler | |
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Orders | |
Ordination | June 7, 1941 by Dennis Joseph Dougherty |
Consecration | January 7, 1964 by John Krol |
Personal details | |
Born | Connerton, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, US | December 21, 1915
Died | September 2, 1983 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US | (aged 67)
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Education | St. Charles Borromeo Seminary |
Joseph Thomas Daley (December 21, 1915 – September 2, 1983) was an American
Biography
Early life
Joseph Daley was born on December 21, 1915, in
Auxiliary Bishop, Coadjutor Bishop and Bishop of Harrisburg
On November 25, 1963, Daley was appointed as an
During his 12-year-long tenure, Daley established the Diocesan Office of Planning, Diocesan Development Office, and Emmaus Program for priests.[3] He called for a temporary moratorium on building nuclear power plants after the accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg in 1979.[4]
Death and legacy
Joseph Dale died in Harrisburg from cancer on September 2, 1983, at age 67.[3] [2] On August 1, 2018, Bishop Ronald Gainer, Daley's successor as bishop of Harrisburg, announced that the names of every bishop of Harrisburg from 1947 onward – including Daley's – would be removed from any building or room in the diocese named in their honor, due to their failure to protect victims from abuse.[5]
References
- ^ "Episcopal Alumni". St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Archived from the original on 2009-10-15.
- ^ a b c d "Bishop Joseph Thomas Daley". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.[self-published source]
- ^ a b "Diocesan History". Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. Archived from the original on 2010-09-21.
- ^ "BISHOP JOSEPH T. DALEY". The New York Times. 1983-09-06.
- ^ Zauzmer, Julie (August 1, 2018). "Pennsylvania diocese will remove every bishop's name since 1947 from buildings because they failed to root out child sexual abuse". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 1, 2018.