Joseph Victor Adamec

Joseph Victor Adamec ( born August 13, 1935 in Bannister ) is retired Bishop of Altoona - Johnstown.

Life

The son of an immigrant from Slovakia miner studied for two years in Journalism and Foreign Languages ​​at Michigan State University. Encounters with the late Cardinal Jozef Tomko provided the impetus for the decision to become a priest. He studied at the Pontifical Collegium Nepomucenum in Rome and graduated from the Pontifical Lateran University, a licentiate in theology.

The auxiliary bishop in Rome, Cardinal Luigi Traglia, ordained him a priest on July 3, 1960 for the Diocese of Nitra Slovakia, the former home diocese of his parents.

After returning to the United States, he worked in his home diocese of Saginaw, where he was also secretary and Episcopal Zeremoniar and later Cancellarius curiae. 1977 Adamec pastor and Schulselsorger in Bay City.

The Association of Slovak Catholics in the U.S. (Slovak Catholic Federation) elected him as its president in 1971, a post he held for 17 years. He is also a member of the Slovak League of America (Slovak League of America ) and the Knights of Columbus.

Recorded in 1980 Pope John Paul II Adamec from the medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice and in 1985 awarded him the honorary title of Papal honor prelates

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 12 March 1987 as Bishop of Altoona - Johnstown. The Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Jozef Tomko, donated to him on 20 May of that year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were James John Hogan, Bishop Emeritus of Altoona - Johnstown, and Francis Frederick Reh, Emeritus Bishop of Saginaw.

On 14 January 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. be pre- attached for reasons of age resignation to.