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Styles of John Robert Roach
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

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 archiepiscopate 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, taking up the rank of Archbishop ad personam. 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.

External links

• John Roach at Find a Grave

Ordination history of John Roach
History Episcopal consecration Consecrated by Luigi Raimondi Date September 8, 1971
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by John Roach as principal consecrator Victor Hermann Balke September 2, 1976 Paul Vincent Dudley January 25, 1977 John Francis Kinney January 25, 1977 William Henry Bullock August 12, 1980 Robert Henry Brom May 23, 1983 Robert James Carlson January 11, 1984 Jerome George Hanus, OSB August 24, 1987 Joseph Leo Charron, CPPS January 25, 1990 Roger Lawrence Schwietz, OMI February 2, 1990

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