Walter Andrew Foery

Styles of Walter Andrew Foery


Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Walter Andrew Foery (July 6, 1890—May 10, 1978) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Syracuse from 1937 to 1970.

[edit] Biography

Walter Foery was born to William and Agnes (née O'Brien) Foery in Rochester, New York, where he also studied at St. Bernard's Seminary^[1]. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 10, 1916, and then did pastoral work in the Diocese of Rochester, as well as serving as director of the diocesan Catholic Charities and as Vice-Chairman of Rochester's Council of Social Agencies.

On May 26, 1937, Foery was appointed the fifth Bishop of Syracuse by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 18 from Archbishop Edward Mooney, with Bishops Emmet Walsh and Francis Keough serving as co-consecrators. At age 46, he was the youngest priest appointed to head the Syracuse diocese, and would become its longest-serving Ordinary to date.

Foery, who was once described as "lean, pale, [and] serious"^[2], was named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on December 11, 1961. He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and retired as Bishop on August 4, 1970, after nearly thirty-three years of service. On that same date, he was named Titular Bishop of Misenum, a post which he later resigned on the following December 31.

The Bishop died at the age of 87, and is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in DeWitt.

Preceded by John Aloysius Duffy	Bishop of Syracuse 1937–1970	Succeeded by David Frederick Cunningham