Adam Maida

infobox cardinalbiog
name = Adam Joseph Maida


See = Detroit
Title = Cardinal Archbishop of Detroit
Period = April 28, 1990 – present
cardinal = November 26, 1994
Predecessor = Edmund Szoka
Successor = incumbent
post = Bishop of Green Bay
date of birth = Birth date and age|1930|3|18|mf=y
place of birth = Pennsylvania|

Adam Joseph Maida (b. March 18, 1930, East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, USA) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit and Superior of Cayman Islands.

Early life

Adam Joseph Maida was born to Adam and Sophie Cieslak Maida. He graduated from St. Mary's Preparatory in Orchard Lake Village, Michigan in 1948. In 1952, Maida graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Saint Vincent College in the Pittsburgh suburb of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Maida was admitted to practice law in 1956, graduating from Duquesne University in 1964.cite web | title =Prominent Alumni | work =Duquesne University, GradSource Profile | publisher =The El Group | url =http://www.gradsource.com/profile.cfm?ArtID=22188 | accessdate =2007-05-20]

Priesthood

Archbishop Maida was ordained to the priesthood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1956 by Bishop John Dearden (who two years later became Archbishop of Detroit). Following his ordination, Maida served as a Vice Chancellor of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and as Adjunct Professor of Theology at Duquesne University School of Law.

Bishop of Green Bay and Archbishop of Detroit

On November 8 1983, Pope John Paul II named Maida to serve as bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay (Green Bay, Wisconsin). He was consecrated on January 25 1984. [ [http://www.gbdioc.org/pg/history.tpl A History of thr Diocese of Green Bay] ]

In 1990, the Pope named Detroit Archbishop Edmund Szoka to serve as a Vatican official. The Pope subsequently chose Bishop Maida to be Cardinal Szoka’s successor as Archbishop of Detroit on April 28 of that year. Maida was installed as the fourth Archbishop of Detroit on June 12.

On November 26, 1994, Pope John Paul II elevated Archbishop Maida to the Sacred College of Cardinals as Cardinal-Priest of "Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio". In 2000, Cardinal Maida was appointed to be the first superior of the Mission "Sui Iuris" of Cayman Islands.

In April 2005, following the Pope's death, he traveled to the Vatican as a cardinal electors to participate in the papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Maida remains eligible to vote in any future conclaves that begin before his 80th birthday on March 18, 2010.

Maida is the ecclesiastic advisor to the Catholic Advisory Board for the Ave Maria Mutual Funds and is a member of the Board of Trustees at The Catholic University of America.

In 2002, St. Gertrude School, part of the Diocese of Greensburg in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was renamed Cardinal Maida Academy in Maida's honor. The school, which offers instruction from grades kindergarten through six, is near Maida's hometown of East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania.

On March 18 2005, Cardinal Maida followed Church law and submitted his retirement request to the Vatican (at age 75). The Vatican asked Maida to remain archbishop until further notice.

On June 8 2006 Cardinal Maida celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.

References

External links

* [http://www.aodonline.org/aodonline-sqlimages/AuxillaryBishops/Maida/MaidaBio.pdf Biography from the Archdiocese of Detroit (in PDF format)]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-m.htm#Maida Cardinal Adam Maida, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmaida.html Cardinal Adam Maida, Catholic Hierarchy]