John Aloysius O’Mara (17 November 1924 – 16 February 2022) was an American-born Canadian

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prelate. O’Mara was born in Buffalo, Erie County,

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, and was ordained to the priesthood for the

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. He served as the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay The Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay ( la, Dioecesis Sinus Tonitralis) is a Latin suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Patrick's Cathedra ...

, Canada, from 1976 to 1991 and as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Catharines The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Catharines ( la, Dioecesis Sanctae Catharinae in Ontario) (erected 22 November 1958) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toronto in St. Catharines, Ontario. It covers the municipalities of Niagara Region and ...

, Canada, from 1991 until his retirement in 2002. O’Mara died on 16 February 2022, at the age of 97.

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