 J. Malone was installed March 31, 2004, as the eleventh bishop of the diocese.On May 29, 2012, Malone became bishop of Buffalo, New York and on December 18, 2013, Pope Francis named Robert Deeley, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston, to succeed Malone as Bishop of the Diocese of Portland.He was installed in a Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on February 14, 2014.