UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
May. 11, 2012
By NCR Staff and Catholic News Service
Bishop Anthony J. O’Connell, whose admission of inappropriate conduct with high school seminarians decades ago led to his resignation as head of the Palm Beach, Fla., diocese in 2002, died May 4 at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, S.C.
The Irish-born bishop had lived under supervision at the abbey since his resignation. His funeral Mass was May 7, also at the abbey.
O’Connell died after a long illness, less than a week before his 74th birthday.
A priest of the Jefferson City, Mo., diocese, he had been bishop of Knoxville, Tenn., from its founding in 1988 until he was appointed bishop of Palm Beach in November 1998.
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