Peter A. Rosazza

His Excellency, The Most Reverend Peter Anthony Rosazza
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hartford Titular Bishop of Oppidum Novum
Archdiocese	Hartford
Appointed	February 28, 1978
Installed	June 24, 1978
Term ended	June 30, 2010
Other posts	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Novum
Orders
Ordination	June 29, 1961
Consecration	June 24, 1978 by John Francis Whealon, John Francis Hackett, and Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas
Personal details
Born	(1935-02-13) February 13, 1935 New Haven, Connecticut

Styles of Peter Anthony Rosazza

Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Peter Anthony Rosazza (born February 13, 1935) is a retired American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford.

Early life and ministry

The eldest child of Aldo and Agatha (née Dinneen) Rosazza, Peter Rosazza was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Torrington.^[1] He attended St. Francis Elementary School and graduated from Torrington High School in 1952.^[1] He studied at Dartmouth College for a year before entering St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield. He then studied at St. Bernard Seminary in Rochester, New York, and at Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris, France, where he was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1961.^[2]

Upon his return to the Archdiocese of Hartford, Rosazza served as assistant pastor at the Church of St. Timothy in West Hartford and later joined the faculty of St. Thomas Seminary, where he taught French, Spanish, and Italian.^[1] In 1972, he became co-pastor of Sacred Heart Church, the mother church of Hartford's Hispanic Catholic community.^[1]

Episcopal career

On February 28, 1978, Rosazza was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford and Titular Bishop of Oppidum Novum by Pope Paul VI.^[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 24 from Archbishop John Whealon, with Bishops John Hackett and Ulises Casiano Vargas serving as co-consecrators.^[2] He was assigned to pastoral work in Waterbury in 1981, and later in his native New Haven in 1988. On February 2, 1997, he was named Episcopal Vicar for Spanish-speaking Catholics in the Archdiocese of Hartford.^[1]

Rosazza is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Social Development and World Peace and is liaison with Brazilian Catholics for the Committee on Migration and Refugees.^[1] He is also bishop advisor to the National Catholic Student Coalition. Between 1980 and 1986, he served as a member of the Committee of Bishops which wrote the pastoral letter Economic Justice for All. He is one of the founders of the Naugatuck Valley Project, a coalition of churches and labor union locals as well as ECCO (Elm City Congregations Organized), a community organization of 18 churches in the New Haven area. Also, he is one of the five bishops who drafted the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Pastoral Letter on the U.S. Economy and Catholic Social Teaching.^[1] In December 2009, Rosazza sat for a one-hour public radio interview on the Colin McEnroe show.^[3] On June 30, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Monsignor Rosazza, who had turned 75 on February 13.^[4]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The Most Reverend Peter A. Rosazza, D.D.". Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.
1 2 3 "Bishop Peter Anthony Rosazza". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
↑ http://www.cpbn.org/program/colin-mcenroe-show/episode/cms-theology-bishop-rosazza
↑ "The Year of Our Lord 2010". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.

External Links

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford Official Site

Episcopal succession

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by -	Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford 1978–2010	Succeeded by -

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford
Ordinaries	Bishops William Tyler Bernard O'Reilly Francis Patrick McFarland Thomas Galberry, O.S.A. Lawrence S. McMahon Michael Tierney John J. Nilan Maurice F. McAuliffe Archishops Henry J. O'Brien John Francis Whealon Daniel Anthony Cronin Henry J. Mansell Leonard P. Blair
Auxiliary bishops	Joseph Francis Donnelly John Francis Hackett Paul Loverde Christie Macaluso John Gregory Murray Henry Joseph O'Brien Peter A. Rosazza
Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of St. Joseph, Hartford Basilica Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Waterbury Parishes St. Joseph Church, Ansonia St. Stanislaus Church, Bristol St. Michael the Archangel Church, Derby St. Adalbert Church, Enfield SS. Cyril and Methodius Church, Hartford St. Stanislaus Church, Meriden Holy Cross Church, New Britain Sacred Heart Church, New Britain St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven St. Mary Church, Newington Church of the Immaculate Conception, Norfolk Immaculate Conception Church, Southington St. Joseph Church, Suffield St. Casimir Church, Terryville St. Mary Church, Torrington St. Hedwig Church, Union City SS. Peter and Paul Church, Wallingford St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Waterbury
Education	Seminaries St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield High Schools Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton Hall, Milford Canterbury School, New Milford East Catholic High School, Manchester Holy Cross High School, Waterbury Northwest Catholic High School, West Hartford Notre Dame High School, West Haven Sacred Heart Academy, Hamden Sacred Heart High School, Waterbury St. Paul Catholic High School, Bristol
Priests	Peter Leo Gerety Francis Patrick Keough
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