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September 20, 2016
Peter Leo Gerety, American bishop (born 1912)
Peter Leo Gerety
Peter Leo Gerety was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Newark from 1974 to 1986. He previously served as Bishop of Portland in Maine from 1969 to 1974. Gerety was the oldest living Catholic bishop in the world at the time of his death at age 104.