Vatican City, Mar 22, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Pope John Paul II appointed today Bishop Joseph Anthony Galante, coadjutor of Dallas (Texas) as the new Bishop of Camden (New Jersey); and appointed Bishop George Thomas, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Seattle (Washington) as the new Bishop of Helena (Montana.)
Bishop Joseph Anthony Galante was born in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on July 2, 1938. He studied at the “Saint Charles Borromeo” Seminary in Overbrook (Pennsylvania) from 1954 to 1964 and was ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on May 16, 1964.
He studied Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University and in 1968 he was sent to serve at the Diocese of Brownsville (Texas) until 1972.
He then returned to Philadelphia and served at the Metropolitan Tribunal and professor of Canon Law at the “Saint Charles Borromeo” Seminary. From 1979 to 1987 was the Vicar for Religious, from 1987 to 1992, Undersecretary at the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life at the Vatican.