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Bishop Fulton J. Sheen visits with guests at St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality.
In a further effort to help Rochester’s poor, he decided in January 1968 to sell St. Bridget’s Church to the federal government as a site for low-income housing. His announcement met with harsh criticism, as he had not previously consulted the parish’s pastor or parishioners about the plan, which he rescinded in March 1968.
In the summer of 1969, Bishop Sheen announced that Pope Paul VI had approved his resignation a year before he was required to give it. He returned to New York City on Oct. 15, 1969, and was appointed titular archbishop of Newport, Wales, in 1969.
Archbishop Sheen died in New York City on Dec. 9, 1979. His sainthood cause, sponsored by his home diocese of Peoria, Ill., is currently pending.
On Oct. 6, 1969, Pope Paul VI named Msgr. Joseph L. Hogan (1969-78) as the seventh bishop of Rochester. A native of Lima, Livingston County, Msgr. Hogan became the rst local priest to shepherd the diocese since Bishop O’Hern. He was consecrated a bishop and installed on Nov. 28, 1969, at Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Prior to his appointment as bishop, he had been a professor of fundamental theology and later dean at St. Bernard’s Seminary. He also had assisted Bishop Kearney in creating and promoting Becket Hall and was its rst rector.
Joseph L. Hogan, seventh Bishop
of Rochester.
The Bishops of the Diocese of
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