Bernard Joseph Harrington

Bernard Joseph Harrington ( born September 6, 1933, Detroit ) is Bishop Emeritus of Winona.

Life

Bernard Joseph Harrington received on 6 June 1959 the ordination to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop on 23 November 1993 in Detroit and Titular Bishop of Uzalis. The Archbishop of Detroit, Adam Joseph Maida, donated him on 6 January of the next year, the episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators Dale Joseph Melczek, Apostolic Administrator of Gary, and Walter Joseph Schoenherr, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit.

On 4 November 1998 he was appointed Bishop of Winona and introduced into the office on January 6 of next year. On 7 May 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. be pre- attached for reasons of age resignation to.