This week Bishop Arthur Kennedy moved into St. Mary’s. He has recently retired and desired to take up residence with us. Bishop Kennedy was born on January 9, 1942 in Boston and is one of six children of the late Arthur and Helen (O’Rourke) Kennedy. After studies at St. John’s Seminary and the Gregorian University in Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston on December 17, 1966 in St. Peter’s Basilica. He served at St. Monica Parish in Methuen and St. Joseph Parish in East Boston. For nearly 33 years Bishop Kennedy served in various positions at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. In addition to serving as a faculty member at the university, he was also on the faculty of the St. Paul’s Seminary. He also served as executive director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. More recently, he was the Rector of St. John’s Seminary in Brighton until July 2012. On June 14, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Boston. He was in charge of the office for the New Evangelization of the Archdiocese of Boston. We are so happy to have Bishop Kennedy in residence here at St. Mary’s!
