PEORIA (IL)
Peoria Journal Star
September24, 2020
By Nick Vlahos
A former spiritual leader of Peoria-area Catholics died Thursday morning.
Archbishop John J. Myers was surrounded by family when he died in a care facility in Ottawa, according to a statement from Catholic Diocese of Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky. Myers was 79.
Myers served as Peoria bishop from 1990 until 2001, when he became archbishop in Newark, N.J.
In 2016, Myers retired from his Newark post.
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