Richard Lennon
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Richard Gerard Lennon |
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| Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Cincinnati |
| Diocese | Cleveland |
| Appointed | April 4, 2006 |
| Installed | May 15, 2006 |
| Term ended | December 28, 2016 |
| Predecessor | Anthony Pilla |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | May 19, 1973 by Humberto Sousa Medeiros |
| Consecration | September 14, 2001 by Bernard Francis Law, Lawrence Joseph Riley, and William Murphy |
| Personal details | |
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March 26, 1947 Arlington, Massachusetts |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Previous post |
Apostolic Administrator of Boston Auxiliary Bishop of Boston Titular Bishop of Sufes |
| Education | Boston College |
| Alma mater | Saint John's Seminary |
| Motto | DILIGAMUS NOS INVICEM |
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Styles of Richard Gerard Lennon |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Richard Gerard Lennon (born March 26, 1947) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as bishop from May 15, 2006, until December 28, 2016, when he resigned because of poor health.
A native of Arlington, Massachusetts, Lennon's father Albert was that town's deputy fire chief. Lennon attended St. James the Apostle grammar school in St. James parish in Arlington, where he was an altar boy. In 1965 Lennon graduated from Matignon, a Catholic high school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a member of the National Honor Society. Lennon attended Boston College where he was a mathematics major for two years before entering St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Lennon received a Masters in Sacramental Theology in 1973 and an M.A. in Church History in 1984, both from St. John's.
Lennon was ordained in the Boston Archdiocese on May 19, 1973. From 1973 to 1982 he served at St. Mary of the Nativity Church in Scituate, Massachusetts, and from 1982 to 1988 at St. Mary's Church in West Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1988 he became the Archdiocese of Boston's archdiocesan assistant for canonical affairs and in 1999, he became the seminary rector.
In June 2001, Lennon was invested as a knight in both the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
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