Peter Leo Gerety

Peter Leo Gerety ( born July 19, 1912 in Shelton, Connecticut, United States) is a retired Roman Catholic Archbishop of Newark.

Life

Peter Leo Gerety, the first of nine children, first worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of New Jersey. In 1932 he entered the Seminary in Bloomfield, Connecticut, a. In 1934 he studied at the Sulpician seminary in Paris. He received in 1939 in the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral ordination for the Diocese of Hartford, Connecticut, United States. He was then in the care of souls in New Haven, Connecticut, works.

In 1966 he was called by Pope Paul VI. appointed Titular Bishop of Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese Crepedula and Portland in Maine. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Hartford, Henry Joseph O'Brien, on June 1, 1966; Co-consecrators were Daniel Joseph Feeney, Bishop of Portland, and John Francis Hackett, Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford. 1967 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator in Portland; 1969 appointment as Bishop of Portland.

In 1974 he became Pope Paul VI. appointed to succeed Thomas Aloysius Boland Archbishop of Newark. His resignation in 1986 was upheld by John Paul II.

He is the founder of " The Archbishop Gerety Fund for Ecclesiastical History".