Paul Gregory Bootkoski

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Paul Gregory Bootkoski

Paul Gregory Bootkoski (born July 4, 1940) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen is a Roman Catholic diocese in New Jersey, centered in the borough of Metuchen, New Jersey. It was erected on November 19, 1981....
. He was appointed to the post in 2002.

He was ordained on May 28, 1966 as a priest for the Archdiocese of Newark.

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Paul Gregory Bootkoski (born July 4, 1940) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen

Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University is a Private university Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States....
, his alma mater

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, 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

Honorary Prelate

An Honorary Prelate of His Holiness is a priest to whom the Pope has granted this title. They are addressed as Monsignor and have certain privileges as regards ecclesiastical dress....
(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

Vicar general

A vicar general is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority. As vicar of the bishop, the vicar general exercises the bishop's ordinary executive over the entire diocese and, thus, is the highest official in a diocese or other particular church after the diocesan bishop....
of the diocese and later diocesan administrator when Archbishop Theodore McCarrick

Theodore Cardinal McCarrick

Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick was the fifth Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, DC, serving from 2001 to 2006....
became archbishop of Washington.