What is Peter Leo Gerety?
[[File:Peter Leo Gerety.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Peter Leo Gerety]] '''Peter Leo Gerety''' (July 19, 1912 &ndash; September 20, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[prelate]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. He was [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark|Archbishop of Newark]] from 1974 to 1986, having previously served as [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland|Bishop of Portland]] (1969–74).<ref name=hierarchy>{{cite news|work=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|title=Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgerety.html}}</ref> At age 104, he was the oldest living Catholic bishop in the United States<ref name=miele>{{cite news|date=2009-06-10|work=The Catholic Advocate|title=Archbishop Gerety Marks Seven Decades in Priesthood|url=http://www.rcan.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=feature.show&feature_id=1348|last=Miele|first=Ward|access-date=2014-06-29|archive-date=2013-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102191930/http://www.rcan.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=feature.show&feature_id=1348|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the oldest living Catholic archbishop in the world until his death in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|work=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|title=Oldest Bishops|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/sage2.html|accessdate=2014-02-04}}</ref> He died in [[Totowa, New Jersey]], on September 20, 2016, and was the world's oldest living Catholic bishop at the time.<ref name=nj>{{cite news |title=Former Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety, world's oldest Catholic bishop, dead at 104 |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/former_newark_archbishop_peter_leo_gerety_worlds_o.html |last=Mueller |first=Mark |date=2016-09-21 |accessdate=2016-09-21 |work=NJ.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-oldest-catholic-bishop-dies-age-104-jersey-173223492.html |title=World's Oldest Catholic Bishop Dies Age 104 |agency=[[Reuters]] |date=2016-09-21 |publisher=[[Yahoo.com]] |accessdate=2016-09-24 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerety, Peter Leo}} [[Category:1912 births]] [[Cat