Robert Joseph Cunningham

Robert Joseph Cunningham ( born June 18, 1943 in Buffalo, New York, USA) is Bishop of Syracuse.

Life

Robert Cunningham received on 24 May 1969 the Auxiliary Bishop of Buffalo, Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, the sacrament of Holy Orders.

On 9 March 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Ogdensburg. The Archbishop of New York, Edward Cardinal Egan Michael, donated to him on 18 May of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Hartford, Henry Joseph Mansell, and the Bishop of Palm Beach, Gerald Michael Barbarito. Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 21 April 2009 as Bishop of Syracuse. The inauguration took place on 26 May of the same year.