Louis A. DeSimone

Styles of
**Louis Anthony DeSimone**
Styles of; Louis Anthony DeSimone
Reference style	His Excellency; The Most Reverend;
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	October 5, 2018 (aged 96); Villanova, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Louis Anthony DeSimone (February 21, 1922 – October 5, 2018) was an American

Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia

from 1981 to 1997.

Biography

DeSimone was born in

priesthood

on May 10, 1952.

He then taught at

Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the Italian government.^{[citation needed}

]

He became pastor of St. Monica Church in Philadelphia in November 1976, and consultor to the Council of Managers of the Archdiocesan Office for Development in 1979. He also sat on the

United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania

.

On June 27, 1981, DeSimone was appointed

Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.^{[citation needed}

]

In addition to his duties as an auxiliary, De Simone was named vicar general of the Archdiocese and later chairman of the Catholic Charities Appeal in 1982. He resigned his post on April 5, 1997, after fifteen years of service and reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.^{[citation needed]} On October 5, 2018, he died at the age of 96 at St. Thomas Monastery in Villanova, Pennsylvania.^[1]