Charles Garrett Maloney (9 September 1913 – 30 April 2006) served as the auxiliary bishop of Louisville and

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of Bardstown, Kentucky.

Education

Maloney attended high school and college at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana where he graduated '' summa cum laude''. He later attended the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Italy where he was eventually ordained.

Ministry

Maloney was ordained a

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in 1937. On 30 December 1954 Pope Pius XII appointed Maloney the auxiliary bishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville The Archdiocese of Louisville is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church that consists of twenty-four counties in the central American state of Kentucky, covering . As of 2018, the archdiocese contains appro ...

; he served in the capacity for 51 years. He was consecrated as a Roman Catholic

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in 1955 by Archbishop John Alexander Floersh at the Cathedral of the Assumption in

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

. Also in 1954, he was appointed bishop of the

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. Later he was appointed as the first

of the diocese of

Bardstown, Kentucky Bardstown is a home rule-class city in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 11,700 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Nelson County. Bardstown is named for the pioneering Bard brothers. David Bard obtained a l ...

, a diocese founded in 1808 but later moved to Louisville.

Second Vatican Council

As of 1995, His Excellency was one of only eight United States bishops still living who participated in the

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. Maloney participated in all four session of the council from 1962 to 1965. He was influential in the passage of ''

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'' (Declaration on Religious Freedom), one of only sixteen documents generated by the Council and approved by the

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. Ironically, Bishop Maloney often said the traditional Latin Mass during his retirement at Saint Martin of Tours Church in Louisville.

References

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External links

Cathedral of the Assumption HomepageBasilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral HomepageRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville Homepage

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