Robert Deeley
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Robert Peter Deeley |
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| Bishop of Portland | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Boston |
| Diocese | Portland |
| Appointed | December 18, 2013 |
| Installed | February 14, 2014 |
| Predecessor | Richard Joseph Malone |
| Other posts | Titular Bishop of Kearney |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | July 14, 1973 by Humberto Sousa Medeiros |
| Consecration | January 4, 2013 by Seán Patrick O'Malley, John Clayton Nienstedt, and Robert C. Evans |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 18, 1946 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Boston |
| Alma mater | |
| Motto | VERITATEM FACERE IN CARITATE (English: Living the truth in love,(Ephesians 4:15) |
| Ordination history of Robert Deeley | |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Sean Patrick Card. O’Malley (Boston) |
| Date of consecration | January 4, 2013 |
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Styles of Robert Peter Deeley |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
Robert Peter Deeley (June 18, 1946) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church currently serving as the Bishop of the Diocese of Portland, Maine.
Robert Peter Deeley was born on June 18, 1946 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Michael and Mary Deeley, both immigrants from County Galway, Ireland. In 1964, after graduating from Matignon High School in Cambridge, Deeley went to Cardinal O’Connell Minor Seminary in Jamaica Plain.
After two years, he was awarded the Basselin Foundation Scholarship and attended The Catholic University of America, where he graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then continued studies at the North American College in Rome, earning a Bachelor of Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1972.
On July 14, 1973, Deeley was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Boston by Humberto Cardinal Medeiros in his home parish of Sacred Heart in Watertown.
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