Norbert Dorsey

Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey CP (* as Leonard James Dorsey on December 14, 1929 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, † February 21, 2013 in Orlando, Florida) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Orlando.

Life

Norbert Dorsey studied from 1946 to 1948 at the Holy Cross Seminary in Dunkirk, New York, and entered on August 15, 1949, the Congregation of the Passionists at. He studied philosophy and theology in Jamaica, New York and Union City, New Jersey, submitted on August 15, 1949, the profession from and received on 28 April 1956 Cuthbert O'Gara, CP in the St. Michael 's Monastery in Union City to the priesthood. He then completed a postgraduate course in Sacred Eloquence in Munich, London and Rome. At the Pontifical Instituto de Música Sagrada he graduated as a conductor. At the Pontifical Gregorian University, he became a Doctor of Divinity. doctorate.

He was professor of theology in West Hartford, CT, and from 1965 to 1970 Rector of the Abbey in West Springfield, MA. For two terms, he was Provincial of the Order. In 1982 he became Assistant General of the Order in Rome and responsible for Visitations in 52 countries around the world.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 10 January 1986 Titular Bishop of Mactaris and auxiliary bishop in Miami. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Miami, Edward Anthony McCarthy, on 19 March of the same year; Co-consecrators were Joseph Francis Maguire, Bishop of Springfield, and Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss CP, Emeritus Prelate of Marbel. His episcopal motto was Love is Ingenious. He also took over the office of the Vicar General and the personnel management of the archdiocese. He was a member of the board of St. Thomas University and Barry University in Miami and St. Leo College in Tampa.

On 20 March 1990 he was appointed Bishop of Orlando and introduced into the office on 25 May of the same year. On November 13, 2004 Pope John Paul II accepted his pre- mounted resignation for reasons of age.