Misplaced Pages

John Roach (bishop): Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 19:21, 3 November 2005 editGentgeen (talk | contribs)Administrators24,097 edits style box← Previous edit Revision as of 00:41, 9 November 2005 edit undoBluebot (talk | contribs)349,597 editsm Robot subst'ing.Next edit →
Line 78: Line 78:




{{lived|b=1921|d=2003|key=Roach}} ]
]
] ]
] ]

Revision as of 00:41, 9 November 2005

This article is about a Bishop. For the ice hockey player see John Ross Roach


Styles of
John Robert Roach
Reference styleThe Most Reverend
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleMonsignor
Posthumous stylenone

John Robert Roach (b. July 31, 1921 in Prior Lake, Minnesota, d. July 11, 2003 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) was the sixth Archbishop and eighth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. His archepiscopate began when he succeeded Leo Binz on May 28, 1975 and ended with his retirement on September 8, 1995. He was succeeded by Harry Flynn. He died on July 11, 2003 and was awarded the title Archbishop Emeritus. In the last months of his life he was an outspoken critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Stub icon

This biography of a religious figure is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.


Ordination history of
John Roach
History
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated byLuigi Raimondi
DateSeptember 8, 1971
Categories: