Name Michael Driscoll Posthumous style not applicable | Religious style Monsignor Spoken style Your Excellency | |
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Education University of Southern California | ||
Reference style The Most Reverend | ||
Michael Patrick Driscoll (born August 8, 1939) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the seventh Bishop of Boise. He retired on August 8, 2014.
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Early life and ministry
Michael Driscoll was born in Long Beach, California. As a child, he would pretend to celebrate Mass, giving Necco candy wafers as communion to his younger siblings. He attended St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, and was ordained to the priesthood by James Cardinal McIntyre on May 1, 1965.
He did pastoral work in Los Angeles and Burbank, and earned a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California in 1973. He served as Chancellor (1976–1987), Vicar for Religious and for Charities, and Vicar General in the Diocese of Orange.
Episcopal career
On December 19, 1989, Driscoll was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Orange and Titular Bishop of Maxita by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on March 6, 1990 from Bishop Norman McFarland, with Bishops John Steinbock and Thomas Connolly serving as co-consecrators.
Driscoll was later named Bishop of Boise, Idaho, on January 18, 1999. Replacing Bishop Tod Brown, he was formally installed on the following March 17. After 15 years with the Diocese of Boise, Bishop Driscoll retired on August 8, 2014 and Bishop Peter Christensen was named his successor.