Daniel Cronin (bishop)

Styles of Daniel Anthony Cronin
Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Archbishop

Daniel Anthony Cronin (born November 14, 1927) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Fall River from 1970 to 1992, and Archbishop of Hartford from 1992 to 2003.

Early life and priesthood[]

Daniel Cronin was born in Newton, Massachusetts eldest son of Daniel G. and Emily (Joyce) Cronin. He and attended St. Peter School in Cambridge and graduated from Boston College High School in 1945. He studied at St. John's Seminary in Brighton from 1945 to 1949, and then furthered his studied at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where Cronin was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Clemente Micara on December 20, 1952. He then earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (1953) and Doctorate of Sacred Theology (1956) from the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Cronin did pastoral work in Salisbury, Lynn, and Waltham before becoming an attaché of the Apostolic Internunciature to Ethiopia in 1957. He was made an attaché of the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1961, and a Papal Chamberlain in 1962.

Episcopal career[]

On June 10, 1968, Cronin was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of Egnatia by Pope Paul VI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 12 from Richard Cardinal Cushing, with Bishops Jeremiah Minihan and Thomas Riley serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. He selected as his episcopal motto: "Ad Oboediendum Fidei", meaning, "For Obedience of Faith" (Romans 1:5).^[1] As an auxiliary bishop, he served as pastor of St. Raphael Church in Medford.

Cronin was later named the fifth Bishop of Fall River on October 30, 1970. He succeeded James Louis Connolly, and was installed at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral on December 16, 1970. In 1975, he publicly denounced U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) when Kennedy declared that he would not vote to outlaw abortion, although Kennedy did not personally support it.^[2]

On December 10, 1991, Cronin was appointed the third Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, by Pope John Paul II. He succeeded the late John Francis Whealon, and was installed at the Cathedral of St. Joseph on January 28, 1992. He received the pallium, a vestment worn by metropolitan bishops, from John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica on the following June 29. Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, he retired as Archbishop on October 20, 2003.

Views[]

Considered theologically conservative. He once stated "The dominion of human life is in the hands of God. The gift of life starts from the time of conception and ends at the time of natural death."^[3]

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External links[]

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River

Episcopal succession[]