Anthony Francis Mestice

Anthony Francis Mestice (December 6, 1923 in Bronx, New York City, † April 30, 2011 in Manhattan, New York City ) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in New York.

Life

Anthony Francis Mestice studied at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers and received on June 4, 1949, ordained priest by Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman. He initially worked in pastoral care in the parish of St. Anthony in Wakefield, in 1969 in the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Poughkeepsie, then to St. Dominic in the New York City borough of the Bronx.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on March 5, 1973 Titular Bishop of Villanova and auxiliary bishop in New York. The Archbishop of New York Cardinal Terence James Cooke gave him on 27 April 1973, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were John Joseph Maguire, Koadjutorerzbischof of New York, and Joseph Maria Pernicone, Auxiliary Bishop of New York.

He was involved in numerous supervisory bodies of the Archdiocese of New York. He founded the Commission Health and Social Affairs of Dutchess County. From 1973 to 1985 he was Episcopal Vicar for Berufungspatoral in the Archdiocese of New York. From 1980 to 1983 he was chairman of the Committee on Vocations of the U.S. Bishops' Conference. He taught at Manhattan College. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters of the Marist College in Poughkeepsie NY.

On 30 October 2001, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.