Martin Dewey McNamara

Martin Dewey McNamara ( born May 12, 1898 in Chicago, USA, † May 23, 1966 ) was the first Bishop of Joliet in Illinois.

Life

Martin Dewey McNamara received on 23 December 1922, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

On December 17, 1948, he was named by Pope Pius XII. the first bishop of the Diocese of Joliet few days previously established in Illinois. The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Stritch Samuel, donated him on March 7, 1949, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Rockford, John Joseph Boylan, and the Bishop of Belleville, Albert Rudolph Zuroweste.