NEW YORK
Staten Island Advance
By Vincent Barone | vbarone@siadvance.com
on June 14, 2014
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Pope Francis has named three priests to serve under Cardinal Timothy Dolan as auxiliary bishops to the Archdiocese of New York. Two of the bishop-elects are John O’Hara and Peter Byrne, 30-year priests who have been staples in the Catholic community on Staten Island.
Bishop-elect O’Hara, 68, is currently the director of strategic pastoral planning for the archdiocese. He was once the pastor of the Church of St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus on Staten Island and has served in the borough for a total of 24 years.
Byrne, 62, is the former longtime pastor of Immaculate Conception, where he served for 18 years, from 1995 to 2013.
The news was announced Saturday morning in Washington D.C. by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
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