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Article: Bishop John Mulcahy Served Boston archdiocese; at 71
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1994
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The Most Rev. John J. Mulcahy, who served the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Boston as an auxiliary bishop for 17 years, died
Tuesday at Salem Hospital. He was 71.
Bishop Mulcahy was suffering from kidney disease, which had forced
him to resign in 1992 as the auxiliary bishop of the North area.
As auxilary bishop, he was one of the principal assistants in
church administration to Cardinal Bernard Law.
Born in Dorchester, Bishop Mulcahy was ordained in 1947. After
assignments at Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church in Newton Upper
Falls and Blessed Sacrament Church in Jamaica Plain, he became
spiritual director at Cardinal O'Connell Seminary in Jamaica Plain in
1962.
In 1969, he became rector ...