His Excellency, The Most Reverend Michael Patrick Driscoll |
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Bishop Emeritus of Boise | |
Archdiocese | Portland |
Diocese | Boise |
Appointed | January 18, 1999 |
Installed | March 17, 1999 |
Term ended | November 24, 2014 |
Predecessor | Tod David Brown |
Successor | Peter F. Christensen |
Orders | |
Ordination | May 1, 1965 by James Francis McIntyre |
Consecration | March 6, 1990 by Norman Francis McFarland, John Thomas Steinbock, and Thomas Joseph Connolly |
Personal details | |
Born |
Long Beach, California |
August 8, 1939
Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Orange |
Motto | Caritas Christi |
Styles of Michael Patrick Driscoll |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Michael Patrick Driscoll (born August 8, 1939) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the seventh Bishop of Boise. He retired on August 8, 2014.
Michael Driscoll was born in Long Beach, California. As a child, he would pretend to celebrate Mass, giving Necco candy wafers as communion to his younger siblings. He attended St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, and was ordained to the priesthood by James Cardinal McIntyre on May 1, 1965.
He did pastoral work in Los Angeles and Burbank, and earned a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California in 1973. He served as Chancellor (1976–1987), Vicar for Religious and for Charities, and Vicar General in the Diocese of Orange.