Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Named Bishop of Wilmington, a Sun Reporter, Baltimore Sun, July 7, 2008

Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Named Bishop of Wilmington

By a Sun Reporter
Baltimore Sun

July 7, 2008

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-bishop0707,0,3853853.story

In his role in the archdiocese, Malooly served as vicar for 38 parishes in Western Maryland

Auxiliary Bishop William Francis Malooly of the Archdiocese of Baltimore was today named the bishop of Wilmington, Del., and he will be formally introduced at a news conference at St. Ann's Catholic Church there at 10 this morning.

The announcement came from the Vatican and the Baltimore and Wilmington dioceses. Malooly, 64, will succeed Bishop Michael A. Saltarelli, who resigned his post upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75. Saltarelli had served as bishop of Wilmington, which includes Maryland's Eastern Shore, since 1996.

Auxiliary Bishop William Francis Malooly of the Archdiocese of Baltimore was named the bishop of Wilmington, Del. as announced by the Vatican and the Baltimore and Wilmington dioceses. (Sun photo by Jed Kirschbaum / June 18, 2007)

Malooly was ordained auxiliary bishop at a ceremony at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on March 1, 2001, and he served as vicar for 38 parishes in Western Maryland.

He was born in Baltimore on Jan. 18, 1944, attended elementary school at St. Ursula in Parkville and later at the now-closed St. Charles school in Catonsville. He attended seminary at the now-closed St. Mary's on Paca Street and St. Mary's in Roland Park, now called St. Mary's Seminary and University.

Malooly was ordained a priest by his uncle, the late Bishop T. Austin Murphy, at St. Ursula Church in 1970, according to a biography provided by the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He served parishes in Texas and in Baltimore.

The diocese of Wilmington was established in 1868 and now includes 57 parishes in Delaware and Maryland, more than 200 priests, 30 schools and a Catholic population of 220,000. Baltimore's archdiocese has more than 500 priests in 151 parishes with a Catholic population of more than a half-million.