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BISHOP DIMARZIO’S INSTALLATION SET FOR OCT. 3
The installation of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio as the seventh Bishop of Brooklyn has been set for Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica, 59th St. and Fifth Ave., Bay Ridge, on Friday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m.
Bishop DiMarzio will succeed Bishop Thomas V. Daily, whose resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II on Aug. 1. Bishop Daily reached his 75th birthday last Sept. 23, when he was mandated by canon law to submit his letter of resignation to the Pope.
Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York, will install Bishop DiMarzio. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the papal nuncio to the United States, will represent the Holy Father.
In the interim until Oct. 3, Bishop Daily will serve as the Diocesan Administrator of Brooklyn, having been elected today (Aug. 5) by the College of Consultors of the Diocese of Brooklyn. The election of a Diocesan Administrator is required under Church law to provide for the governance of a diocese until a new bishop takes possession of the diocese.
During the time between the announcement of Bishop DiMarzio’s appointment and Bishop Daily’s election as Diocesan Administrator, the Diocese was governed by Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan as the senior auxiliary bishop. Canon law required Bishop Sullivan to convene the College of Consultors for the election of a diocesan administrator.
Church law permits a diocesan administrator to conduct the day-to-day business of a diocese, but he may not undertake innovations in the governance of the diocese.
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