Most Rev. Peter Leo Gerety, D.D.
Peter Leo Gerety, the first of nine sons of
Peter Leo Gerety and Charlotte Ursula Daly Gerety, was born on
July 19, 1912 in Shelton, Connecticut. There he attended
Commodore Issac Hull School and the Ferry Street School,
graduating from Shelton High School in 1929. After working for
the United States Department of Agriculture and the New Jersey
Transportation Department, he entered St. Thomas Seminary in
Bloomfield, Connecticut in 1932 as a candidate for the
priesthood in the Archdiocese of Hartford.
In 1934, he was sent to Paris to complete his studies at the
Seminary of St. Sulpice. After ordination in the Cathedral of
Notre Dame in Paris, Father Gerety returned to Connecticut and
spent almost twenty-seven years in parish work in New Haven,
Connecticut. From 1942 until he was appointed bishop in
1966, his life as a priest was largely devoted to the service of
the Black Catholic community of New Haven, developing what
eventually became Saint Martin de Porres parish.
In 1966, within a year of the close of the Second Vatican
Council, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Portland, Maine,
becoming diocesan bishop two years later. In 1974, Bishop Gerety
was named Archbishop of Newark, a post he held until his
retirement in 1986. Today Archbishop Gerety is Archbishop
Emeritus of Newark.
Archbishop Gerety Fund for Ecclesiastical History
The Archbishop Gerety Fund for Ecclesiastical
History was established by the Most Reverend Peter Leo Gerety,
Archbishop Emeritus of Newark, to advance studies in
ecclesiastical history, especially the history of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States. Among its various
activities, the Fund sponsors two lectures annually at the
beginning of the fall and spring terms. The Fund also sponsors
annual awards for excellence in the study of the history of the
Church for students of Immaculate Conception Seminary School of
Theology. In addition, the Fund sponsors awards for monographs
on the history of Catholicism in the United States with special
emphasis on the history of Catholicism in New Jersey.
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Monsignor Raymond Kupke, Ph.D., adjunct professor of Church History, and Father Joseph R. Chapel, S.T.D., associate dean and associate professor of Christian Ethics, congratulate Father Thomas Quinn, M.Div. '05, recipient of the 2005 Archbishop Gerety Ecclesiastical History Award. |
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