Robert Deeley

Robert Peter Deeley ( born June 18, 1946 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) is Bishop of Portland.

Life

Robert Deeley studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He received on 14 July 1973, the sacrament of Holy Orders for the Archdiocese of Boston. Initially he worked as a chaplain in Needham and in 1978 as secretary of the diocesan tribunal. From 1981, he studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he earned a licentiate in 1983 and 1985 after preparing his dissertation The mandates For Those Who teach theology in Institutes of higher studies. An interpretation of the meaning of canon 812 of the Code of Canon Law as Dr. iur. can. received his doctorate. From 1985, he served as diocesan judge and later as Vice Officer in Boston. From 1988 to 1991 he was a diocesan chaplain of the Knights of Columbus and then to 1999, spiritual director of the Catholic Lawyers Guild. In 1999, Deeley pastor in the district of Wollaston Quincy.

From 2004 to 2011, Deeley worked at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. Upon his return to Boston, he was appointed Vicar General in 2011.

On November 9, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. Titular Bishop of Kearney and auxiliary bishop in Boston. The Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley, OFM Cap, donated to him on the 4th of January of the next year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were John Clayton Nienstedt, Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and Robert Charles Evans, Auxiliary Bishop of Providence.

Pope Francis appointed him on December 18, 2013 as Bishop of Portland. The inauguration took place on 14 February 2014.