Paul Gregory Bootkoski

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Paul Gregory Bootkoski (born July 4, 1940) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen. He was appointed to the post in 2002.[1][2]

He was ordained on May 28, 1966 as a priest for the Archdiocese of Newark. He was assistant vice president for student affairs at Seton Hall University, his alma mater, for three years beginning in 1980. In 1983 he became pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Elizabeth. He became an honorary prelate (Monsignor) in 1991.

He was named auxiliary bishop of Newark in July 8, 1997, and consecrated bishop on September 5 of that year. He was vicar general of the diocese and later diocesan administrator when Archbishop Theodore McCarrick became archbishop of Washington.

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