John Mortimer Smith
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend John Mortimer Fourette Smith |
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| Bishop Emeritus of Trenton | |
| Archdiocese | Newark |
| Diocese | Trenton |
| Appointed | November 21, 1995 (Coadjutor) |
| Installed | June 30, 1997 |
| Term ended | December 1, 2010 |
| Predecessor | John C. Reiss |
| Successor | David M. O'Connell |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | May 27, 1961 |
| Consecration | January 25, 1988 by Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Peter Leo Gerety, and Walter William Curtis |
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| Born |
June 23, 1935 Orange, New Jersey |
| Previous post |
Auxiliary Bishop of Newark Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee |
| Motto | Servite Domino in lætitia |
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Styles of John Mortimer Fourette Smith |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
John Mortimer Fourette Smith (born June 23, 1935) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the ninth Bishop of Trenton, having previously served as Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee from 1991 to 1995. He is currently the Bishop Emeritus of Trenton, having been succeeded upon his retirement for age reasons by his Coadjutor Bishop, former Catholic University of America President David M. O'Connell, on Wednesday, December 1, 2010.
John Smith was born in Orange, New Jersey, to Mortimer and Ethel (née Charnock) Smith. The oldest of three children, he has two brothers, Andrew (who later became a Benedictine monk) and Gregory. He attended Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark and John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1955, he entered Immaculate Conception Seminary, a branch of Seton Hall University, from where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in classical languages in 1957.
Smith was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Thomas Boland on May 27, 1961. He then served as Assistant Chancellor, Defender of the Bond of the Metropolitan Tribunal, and director of the Cursillo movement for the Archdiocese of Newark.
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