Pope Names CLSA Member Auxilary Bishop
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Posted by: Katie Richards
Pope Benedict XVI has named Msgr. Michael Fitzgerald, 62, Judicial Vicar of the
Metropolitan Tribunal of Philadelphia, as an auxiliary bishop of
Philadelphia.
Michael Fitzgerald was ordained a priest for the Philadelphia Archdiocese in 1980, and earned a Licentiate in Canon Law from The
Catholic University of America in 1989, and a doctorate in Canon Law
from the Gregorian University, Rome, in 1991. He was
director of the Office for Legal Services, 1991-2004, and in 2007 was named
judicial vicar. Bishop-elect Fitzgerald has been an active member of the Canon Law Society of America since 1983.
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