Thomas Joseph Grady

Thomas Joseph Grady (October 9, 1914 – April 21, 2002) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the second Bishop of Orlando from 1974 to 1989, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1967 to 1974.

Thomas Grady was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a police captain who twice arrested Al Capone. He attended Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary.

On April 23, 1938, he was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal George Mundelein. Grady studied in Rome for a year before returning to Chicago, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in English from Loyola University in 1944. He taught at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and later joined the faculty of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, serving as procurator. In 1956, he was appointed director of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., the largest Catholic church in the United States. As director, Grady oversaw a period of massive construction for the church, assuming his position just as building resumed after a 20-year hiatus. He worked with builders and architects to oversee the cladding of its interior and exterior with limestone and marble, the addition of 26 side chapels, the completion of the "Christ in Majesty" mosaic, and the installation of a massive pipe organ. Shortly after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he celebrated a Mass for President Lyndon B. Johnson using a gold and bejeweled "Texas chalice."

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