Walter James Edyvean

Styles of Walter Edyvean
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	not applicable

Walter James Edyvean (born October 18, 1938) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is a retired auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston who served from 2001 to 2014.

Biography

Edyvean was born in Medford, Massachusetts, and attended Boston College, from where he obtained a degree in English literature in 1960.^[1] He also studied at St. John's Seminary before furthering his studies in Rome at the Pontifical North American College and Pontifical Gregorian University, there earning a baccalaureate (1963) and licentiate in theology (1965). While in Rome, Edyvean was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Francis Reh on December 16, 1964.^[2]

He was an assistant pastor at St. Joseph Church in Ipswich from 1965 to 1968, and earned a doctorate in theology after further studies in Rome from 1968 to 1971.^[1] He was a faculty member of St. John's Seminary from 1971 to 1990, when he was named capo ufficio of the Congregation for Catholic Education in the Roman Curia.^[1]

On June 29, 2001, Edyvean was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of Aeliae by Pope John Paul II.^[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 14 from Bernard Cardinal Law, with Bishops Lawrence Riley and William Murphy serving as co-consecrators.^[2] As an auxiliary, he serves as Regional Bishop of the West Pastoral Region and vicar general of the Archdiocese.

Thirteen years to the day after his appointment (June 29, 2014), Pope Francis accepted his retirement as Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston.

See also

References

External links

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

Episcopal succession

Archdiocese of Boston Ordinaries Bishops Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus Benedict Joseph Fenwick John Bernard Fitzpatrick Archbishops John Joseph Williams Cardinal William Henry O'Connell Cardinal Richard Cushing Cardinal Humberto Sousa Medeiros Cardinal Bernard Francis Law Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley Auxiliary Bishops John Anthony Dooher Walter James Edyvean Robert Francis Hennessey Peter John Uglietto Churches Cathedral Cathedral of the Holy Cross Basilica Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (The Mission Church) Parishes Holy Trinity Parish, Lowell Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish, Boston St. John the Baptist Parish, Salem St. Mary's Church, Dedham St. Mary's Church, Waltham St. Mary's Church, Winchester St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr's Parish, Chelsea Education Seminaries Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary St. John's Seminary Colleges Boston College Emmanuel College Labouré College Marian Court College Merrimack College Regis College St. John's Seminary High Schools Academy of Notre Dame, Tyngsboro Archbishop Williams High School, Braintree Arlington Catholic High School, Arlington Austin Preparatory School, Reading Bishop Fenwick High School, Peabody Boston College High School, Dorchester Cardinal Spellman High School, Brockton Cathedral High School, Boston Catholic Memorial High School, West Roxbury Central Catholic High School, Lawrence Cristo Rey Boston High School, Dorchester Elizabeth Seton Academy, Boston Fontbonne Academy, Milton Lowell Catholic High School, Lowell Malden Catholic High School, Malden Marian High School Framingham Matignon High School, Cambridge Mount Alvernia High School, Newton Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Boston Nazareth Academy, Wakefield Newton Country Day School, Newton Notre Dame Academy, Hingham Notre Dame High School, Lawrence Pope John XXIII High School, Everett Presentation of Mary Academy, Methuen Sacred Heart High School, Kingston Saint Clement High School, Medford St. John's Preparatory School, Danvers St. Mary's High School, Lynn Saint Sebastian's School, Needham Ursuline Academy, Dedham Xaverian Brothers High School, Westwood Catholicism Portal