Francis Thomas Hurley

Francis Thomas Hurley ( born January 12, 1927 in San Francisco) is Archbishop Emeritus of Anchorage.

Life

Francis Thomas Hurley received on 16 June 1951, the ordained priest for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him auxiliary bishop on February 4, 1970 in Juneau and Titular Bishop of Daimlaig. The Bishop of Santa Rosa in California, Mark Joseph Hurley, donated to him on 19 March of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were William Edward McManus, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, and Joseph Louis Bernardin, Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta.

On July 20, 1971, he was appointed Bishop of Juneau and introduced into the office on 8 September of the same year. On 4 May 1976 he was appointed Archbishop of Anchorage and introduced into the office on 8 July of the same year. From his office he resigned on 3 March 2001.

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