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Bishop Joseph F. Martino
2003 - present
 Pope
John Paul II announced on July 25, 2003 the
appointment of the Most Rev. Joseph Francis
Martino, D.D., Hist. E.D., as the ninth
Bishop of Scranton. At the time Bishop
Martino was Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar
General of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
On
Oct. 1, 2003 Bishop Martino was officially
installed as Bishop of Scranton by Cardinal
Anthony Bevilacqua, the Metropolitan
Archbishop, during a special liturgy at St.
Peter’s Cathedral in
Scranton.
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Born
May 1, 1946 in Philadelphia, Bishop Martino is the son of Eleanor Rose
(Devlin) Martino and the late Joseph F.
Martino, Sr. The Bishop has one sibling, a
sister, Eleanor Mary. The family resides in
Hatboro, Pa., outside
Philadelphia.
Bishop Martino
was ordained to the episcopacy on March 11,
1996, upon his Papal appointment as
Auxiliary Bishop to the Archbishop of
Philadelphia.
He was ordained to the priesthood on
December 18, 1970, at St. Peter’s
Basilica, Rome , Italy.
Among his priestly assignments as an
assistant pastor were Epiphany of Our Lord
Parish, Philadelphia, from 1971-1975; Our
Lady of Grace Parish, Penndel, 1975-1977;
Immaculate Conception Parish, Jenkintown,
during the summers of 1977-1981, and St.
Barbara Parish, Philadelphia, in 1987. He
was named an Honorary Prelate of His
Holiness, with the title of “Reverend
Monsignor,” in 1991. He resided at St.
Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, from
1986 until 2003.
The Bishop
served as director of the Philadelphia
archdiocesan Office for Ecumenical and
Interreligious Affairs from 1997 until 2003,
and earlier, from 1990 to 1993. He also
served as the archdiocesan director of the
Office for Renewal of Pastoral Life, from
1992 to 1997. In addition, he served on the
faculty of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary,
Overbrook, Pa., as Dean of Formation in the Theology
Division and assistant professor of Church
History from 1986 to 1992. He was a faculty
member of
Bishop
Shanahan
High School,
West Chester, from 1982-1984.
From 1984 to
1986, he conducted a special research
assignment for the archdiocese, authorizing
the official Church document pleading the
beatification cause of Mother Katherine
Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the
Blessed Sacrament. She was beatified in 1988
and proclaimed a saint by the Pope in 2000.
Currently,
Bishop Martino’s many committee
memberships include a four-year term as the
representative of diocesan priests of Region
III on the National Advisory Council of the
Administrative Committee of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB); the
USCCB’s Committee on Evangelization and
the Committee on Ecumenical and
Interreligious Affairs. He serves as
Catholic Co-Chair of the International
Catholic Mennonite Dialogue and is the past
Catholic Co-Chair on the Pennsylvania
Conference on Interchurch Cooperation. In
addition, he is a member of the
Ecclesiastical Advisory Committee of the
Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation
of Catholic Higher Education and the
Advisory Council of Catholics United for the
Faith. In July, 2004, Bishop Martino was
appointed to the Board of Trustees of the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception in
Washington,
D.C.
Bishop Martino holds a doctoral degree in
ecclesiastical history and a licentiate in
sacred theology from the
Pontifical
Gregorian
University,
Rome. He is a graduate of St. Charles Borromeo
College Seminary, St. Joseph
Preparatory School
and St. Columba Elementary School,
Philadelphia.
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