Lawrence Aloysius Burke

Lawrence Aloysius Burke, SJ ( born October 27, 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica; † January 24, 2010 ibid ) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica

Life

Lawrence Aloysius Burke grew up in Vineyard Town and occurred after a visit to the St. George 's College in Kingston in 1951 the Congregation of the Jesuits in Lennox, Massachusetts, at. He studied philosophy at Boston College in Chestnut Hill ( BS ( 1957), Master ( 1958) ), philosophy at Weston College in Weston ( Licentiate (1959 ) ) and theology at Boston College ( Master ( 1965) ). He received on 16 June 1964, the ordained priest at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kingston, and studied Sacred Theology at Weston College ( Licentiate (1965 ) ) and Liberal Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He taught from 1958 to 1961 at St. George 's College. From 1969 he was its rector. In 1973 he was Regional Superior of his Order in Jamaica. He engaged especially for education in the Caribbean.

Pope John Paul II appointed him in 1981 for the third Bishop of Nassau. He was the first bishop who was not a Benedictine, and the first one was from the West Indies. He received his episcopal consecration on October 11, 1981, Archbishop Paul Fouad Tabet, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago; Co-consecrators were his predecessor in the episcopate, Paul Leonard Hagarty, OSB, and Samuel Emmanuel Carter SJ, Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica.

With the spin-off of " sui juris mission Turks and Caicos Islands " from the territory of the Diocese of Nassau out, he was also appointed in 1984 to the Apostolic Superior. With the elevation to the archbishopric of Nassau he became the first Archbishop of Nassau. 2004 he was appointed Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica. His age-related resignation in 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI. granted.

Lawrence Aloysius Burke was involved in numerous committees of the Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC) and was its president from 2003 to 2008. He became a member of the International Catholic Migration Commission, based in Geneva, Switzerland in 1989.

Honors

  • Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Laws ), St. Leo College, Saint Leo University, St. Leo, Florida ( 1983)
  • Honorary Doctorate ( Doctor of Human Letters ), Saint Joseph's College of Maine, North Windham, Maine ( 1986)
  • Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Laws ), Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut ( 1987)
  • Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Ministry ), The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts ( 1989)
  • Order of Jamaica ( 2009)
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica Chestnut Hill (Massachusetts) Weston (Massachusetts) Ordination Middletown (Connecticut) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau Order of Saint Benedict Holy orders Fairfield (Connecticut) Worcester (Massachusetts) Patrick Pinder Roman Catholic Mission Sui Iuris of Turks and Caicos Theodore Edgar McCarrick Donald James Reece
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