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The
Most Reverend Peter A. Rosazza, D.D.
Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General for the Hispanic Apostolate
Born in New
Haven, Connecticut on February 13, 1935, Bishop Rosazza is the eldest
child of the late Agatha (Dinneen) and Aldo Rosazza. He grew up
in Torrington and attended St. Francis Elementary School and Torrington
High School graduating in 1952. After one year at Dartmouth College
he entered St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Next
he studied at St. Bernard Seminary in Rochester, New York, and completed
his four-year concentration in theology at Seminare Saint-Sulpice
in Paris, France. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of
Hartford in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on June 29, 1961.
Back in Connecticut
he served as assistant pastor in the Church of St. Timothy in West
Hartford and then was appointed to the faculty of St. Thomas Seminary
where he taught French, Spanish and Italian.
In 1972 he
became co-paster of Sacred Heart Church in Hartford's north end,
the mother church of Hartford's Hispanic Catholic community. In
1978 he was named auxiliary bishop to the Archbishop of Hartford
by Pope Paul VI and was ordained bishop on June 24. He continued
to minister at Sacred Heart until his transfer to Waterbury in 1981.
In 1988 he was assigned to New Haven and resides on the grounds
of the Hospital of St. Raphael.
On February
2, 1997, Archbishop Cronin appointed him Episcopal Vicar for the
Spanish speaking Catholics in the Archdiocese of Hartford.
He is a member
of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Social
Development and World Peace and is liaison with Brazilian Catholics
for the Committee on Migration and Refugees. He is also bishop advisor
to the National Catholic Student Coalition. 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.
Office and
Residence: Hospital of St. Raphael, 1450 Chapel St., New Haven,
CT 06511
Phone: 203-789-5970
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