Edward James Slattery

Edward James Slattery ( born August 11, 1940 in Chicago, USA), Bishop of Tulsa.

Life

Edward James Slattery attended the Visitation of the BVM Grade School and Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in the Chicago. At St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein Slattery earned a Master of Divinity. He received on April 26, 1966 by the Archbishop of Chicago, John Cody, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

From 1966 to 1971, Edward James Slattery assistant priest in the parish of St. Jew the Apostle Parish in South Holland, Illinois. He was Vice President from 1971 to 1976 and from 1976 to 1994 president of the Catholic Church Extension Society. In addition, Slattery was from 1976 to 1989 pastor of St. Rose of Lima.

On 11 November 1993, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Tulsa and donated him on January 6, 1994, the episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators official forecasting in the Vatican Secretariat of State, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re Curia, and the secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Archbishop Josip Uhač Curia.