Biography

Bishop Richard J. Malone, Th.D
Apostolic Administrator, Diocese of Portland

Born:    

    March 19, 1946 - Salem, Massachusetts

Education:

    St. John's Prep, Danvers, MA - graduated 1964

    Cardinal O'Connell Seminary, Jamaica Plain, MA

    St. John Seminary, Boston - Bachelor of Philosophy, Master of Divinity, Master of Theology degrees

    Boston University, 1981 - Doctorate in Theology

    Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA 1990 - Licentiate in Sacred Theology

Ordained a Priest:

    May 20, 1972 - by Archbishop Humberto Medeiros, Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, MA

Assignments:

    1972 - Associate Pastor, St. Patrick Parish, Stoneham, MA

    1974  -Faculty, St. Clement High School, Somerville, MA

    1976  -Faculty and Chaplain, Xaverian High School, Westwood, MA

    1979 - Faculty, Registrar, Academic Dean, St. John Seminary College

    1979  -Part-time Chaplain, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

    1979 - Part-time Chaplain, Regis College, Weston, MA

    1979 -Teacher, Emmanuel College, Boston

    1990 - Chaplain, Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center, St. Paul Parish

    1993 - Director, Office of Religious Education, Archdiocese of Boston

    1995 - Secretary for Education, Archdiocese of Boston

Ordained Bishop:

    March 1, 2000
    Appointed Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Boston, South Region

    February 10, 2004
    Appointed Bishop of Portland

    March 31, 2004
    Installed Bishop of Portland

    May 29, 2012
    Appointed Bishop of Buffalo

    August 10, 2012
    Installed as the 14th Bishop of Buffalo / Becomes Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Portland