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Richard Gerard Lennon (born March 26, 1947) became the Roman Catholic bishop of Cleveland, Ohio in May 15, 2006. ==Background== A native of Arlington, Massachusetts, Lennon is the son of an Arlington, Mass. firefighter(Lennon's father, Albert, was Arlington'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, Mass., where he was a member of the National Honor Society. Bishop 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 went on to receive a M.TH in Sacramental Theology in 1973〔 and a M.A. in Church History in 1984〔 both also from St. John's. Bishop Lennon was ordained in the Boston Archdiocese on May 19, 1973. Lennon was a parish priest from 1973 to 1988. From 1973 to 1982 Lennon 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. 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.〔(Diocese of Cleveland - Bishops )〕 On June 29, 2001, Lennon was named as an auxiliary bishop of Boston, and was consecrated on September 14, 2001. From 2001 until April 2006, Lennon served as a bishop in Boston, holding a variety of positions. After Bernard Francis Law resigned his position as Archbishop of Boston in December 2002 amid the church sex scandal, Lennon became very important in leading the troubled archdiocese through the turbulent times as he was the interim leader. He served as the Apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese between Law's resignation and the accession of its new Archbishop, Sean O'Malley. Archbishop Seán O'Malley appointed him as the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Boston and he held this position from August 2003 to April 2006. In a documentary on Boston area sexual abuse and church closings, which aired in 2007 on PBS's Frontline, Lennon confronted a former Catholic parishioner for questioning Lennon's refusal to allow him to photograph a church building scheduled to close. On April 5, 2006, Lennon was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the replacement for Bishop Anthony Pilla, who was suffering from heart disease, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. He became the 10th bishop of Cleveland in an installation ceremony on May 15, 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Lennon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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