Michael J. Fitzgerald (bishop)
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Michael Joseph Fitzgerald |
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| Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia Titular Bishop of Tamallula |
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Michael Fitzgerald
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| Archdiocese | Philadelphia |
| Appointed | June 22, 2010 |
| Installed | August 6, 2010 |
| Other posts | Titular Bishop of Tamallula |
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| Ordination | May 17, 1980 by John Krol |
| Consecration | August 6, 2010 by Justin Francis Rigali, John Patrick Foley, and Joseph Robert Cistone |
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May 23, 1948 Montclair, New Jersey |
| Motto | PER CRUCEM AD LUCEM |
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Styles of Michael Joseph Fitzgerald |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Michael Joseph Fitzgerald (born May 23, 1948) is an American Roman Catholic priest. He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia by Pope Benedict XVI on June 22, 2010 and consecrated on August 6, 2010.
Michael Fitzgerald was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the second of nine children of Edwin and Dorothy (née Bogart) Fitzgerald. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania when he was a young boy, first to Southwest Philadelphia and then to King of Prussia. He received his early education at the parochial schools of St. Clement Church in Philadelphia and St. Augustine Church in Bridgeport. He attended Bishop Kenrick High School in Norristown from 1962 to 1966.
He graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1970, and earned a Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 1973. He served as a judicial clerk in the Court of Common Pleas in Montgomery County from 1973 to 1975, and then worked in private practice. After feeling called to the priesthood, he consulted his pastor and then entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook in 1975. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from St. Charles in 1980.
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