Joseph Michael Sullivan

Joseph Michael Sullivan ( born March 23, 1930 in Brooklyn, † June 7, 2013 in East Meadow, New York) was an American Bishop in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Life

Joseph Michael Sullivan, who came from a family of eleven children, the Manhattan College visited in the New York Bronx and entered 1950 in the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, NY, a. He studied Catholic theology and philosophy and received on 2 June 1956, the ordination. He was a pastoral care of the diocese of Brooklyn worked and completed a master's degree in social work from Fordham University ( 1961) and Public Administration at New York University (1971). He became director of Catholic Charities in Brooklyn and Queens in 1968.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on October 4, 1980 Titular Bishop of Suliana and Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn. He received his episcopal consecration of the Bishop of Brooklyn, John Francis Mugavero, on 24 November of the same year; Co-consecrators were Charles Richard Mulrooney, Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, and John Joseph Snyder, Bishop of Saint Augustine. On 12 May 2005, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation. Sullivan was seriously injured in a car accident on May 30, 2013, the Long Iceland Expressway and died a week later from the effects of the accident at Nassau University Medical Center.

Sullivan was involved in numerous Catholic charities, particularly in Brooklyn and Queens. He was instrumental in the founding of St. Vincent 's Catholic Medical Center. He was Chairman of the Social Development and World Peace Department of the U.S. Bishops' Conference.