Most Reverend Anthony Joseph O'Connell | |
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Bishop of Palm Beach | |
Diocese | Diocese of Palm Beach |
Installed | January 14, 1999 |
Term ended | March 13, 2002 |
Predecessor | Joseph Keith Symons |
Successor | Seán Patrick O'Malley |
Other post(s) | Bishop of Knoxville |
Orders | |
Ordination | March 30, 1963 |
Consecration | September 8, 1988 by Pio Laghi |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | May 4, 2012 Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, South Carolina, U.S. | (aged 73)
Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
Anthony J. O'Connell (May 10, 1938 – May 4, 2012) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic church. He served as the first of the Diocese of Knoxville in Tennessee from 1988 to 1998. He later served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Palm Beach in Florida from 1999 to 2002.
O'Connell resigned as bishop of Palm Beach in 2002 after admitting to the sexual abuse of minors years earlier.