Joseph Maria Pernicone | |
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Auxiliary Bishop of New York | |
In office | 1954-1978 |
Orders | |
Ordination | December 18, 1926 |
Consecration | May 5, 1954 by Cardinal Francis Spellman |
Personal details | |
Born | Regalbuto, Sicily | November 4, 1903
Died | February 11, 1985 Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx | (aged 81)
Nationality | Italian |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Parents | Salvatore and Petronilla (née Taverna) Pernicone |
Education | Cathedral College |
Alma mater | St. Joseph's Seminary |
Joseph Maria Pernicone (November 4, 1903 – February 11, 1985) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1954 to 1978. [1]
Joseph Pernicone was born in Regalbuto, Sicily, to Salvatore and Petronilla (née Taverna) Pernicone. [1] He received his early training at the seminaries in Nicosia and Catania. [1] He came to the United States in 1920. [2] He continued his studies at Cathedral College in New York City and St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. [3]
He was ordained to the priesthood on December 18, 1926. [4] His first assignment was as a curate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Yonkers. [1] In 1932, he earned a Doctor of Canon Law degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. [1] He was pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel's Church (Poughkeepsie, New York) [5] from 1932 to 1944, and served as master of ceremonies at the Requiem Mass for Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, in 1937. [6]
From 1944 to 1966, he was pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in the Bronx. [1] During his tenure in the Bronx, he oversaw the construction of a parochial school which opened in 1949. [7] He was named a papal chamberlain in 1945, and raised to the rank of domestic prelate in 1952. [3]
On April 6, 1954, Pernicone was appointed auxiliary bishop of the New York and titular bishop of Hadrianopolis in Honoriade by Pope Pius XII. [4] He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 5 from Cardinal Francis Spellman, with Bishops Joseph Francis Flannelly and Edward Vincent Dargin serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Cathedral. [4] During his tenure as an auxiliary bishop, he also served as pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Poughkeepsie and episcopal vicar of Dutchess and Putnam Counties. [2] After reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, he retired as auxiliary bishop on November 28, 1978. [4]
He died from a stroke at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, aged 81. [2]