Patrick Ahern

Patrick Vincent Ahern ( born March 8, 1919 in New York City; † March 19, 2011 ) was an American clergyman and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in New York.

Life

Patrick Vincent Ahern came after the visit of Manhattan College and Cathedral College, New York City, in the Seminary of St. Joseph 's Seminary in Yonkers one. He also studied at the Saint Louis University in St. Louis and the University of Notre Dame, South Bend. On 27 January 1945 he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New York. He was first in the parish of St. Helena in the Bronx and worked until 1955 in the Archdiocesan Mission band. By activity on the New York St. Patrick's Cathedral, he was from 1958 to 1967 private secretary to Cardinal Francis Spellman. In 1967 he became pastor of Our Lady of Angels Church in the Bronx.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on February 3, 1970 Titular Bishop of Naiera and auxiliary bishop in New York. The Archbishop of New York, Terence Cardinal Cooke, donated to him on 19 March of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were John Joseph Maguire, Koadjutorerzbischof of New York, and Edwin Bernard Broderick, Bishop of Albany. Until 1976 he was Vicar of the Bronx district; to 1980 the district Northwest Bronx. In 1980 he became Vicar of Staten Iceland; In 1986 he founded the " Seton Foundation for Learning ", the first Catholic educational program on the island. In 1990 he was responsible for the development of the entire diocese of New York.

On 26 April 1994, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.

He was considered one of the leading experts on the spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux. The " Bishop Patrick V. Ahern High School " was founded in 1999 on the site of Moore Catholic High School in Graniteville.

Works

• Maurice and Therese: The Story of Love, Doubleday, 2001, ISBN 978-0385497404