Msgr Moroney's Blog: Installation of Bishop Matano

03 January 2014

Installation of Bishop Matano

Father Romanus Cessario, OP, Father Jim Conn, SJ and I concelebrated the installation Mass of Bishop Salvatore Matano as the ninth Bishop of Rochester this afternoon. Bishop Matano is a member of Saint John's Board of Trustees and a great friend.

Monsignor Moroney, Bishop Matano, Father Conn, and Bishop Deeley before the installation Mass.

Click here for a link to a video report on the installation Mass.

Monsignor James P. Moroney, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester for forty four years, is Pastor of Saint Cecilia Parish in Leominster. He served for many years as Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Divine Worship in Washington D.C., as Rector of Saint John's Seminary in Boston, and as Pastor of Mary Queen of the Rosary Parish in Spencer and as Rector of Saint Paul's Cathedral in Worcester. Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict both appointed him as a Consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome and as Executive Director of the Vox Clara Committee. He is author of THE MASS EXPLAINED (Catholic Book Publishing) which is being published in its third edition this Spring.