Salvatore Ronald Matano

His Excellency, The Most Reverend Salvatore Ronald Matano
Bishop of Rochester
Province	New York
Diocese	Rochester
Installed	2014
Term ended	current
Predecessor	Matthew H. Clark
Successor	incumbent
Other posts	Secretary to the Apostolic Nuncio Bishop of Burlington
Orders
Ordination	December 17, 1971 by James Aloysius Hickey
Consecration	April 19, 2005 by Gabriel Montalvo Higuera, Seán Patrick O'Malley, and Kenneth Anthony Angell
Personal details
Born	(1946-09-15) September 15, 1946 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Nationality	American
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Parents	Salvatore and Mary Matano
Alma mater	Our Lady of Providence Seminary College Pontifical Gregorian University
Motto	IN UNITATEM FIDEI

Styles of Salvatore Ronald Matano
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Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Salvatore Ronald Matano (born September 15, 1946) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church serving as the Bishop of Rochester. He previously served as Bishop of Burlington.

Biography

Salvatore Matano was born in Providence, Rhode Island to Salvatore and Mary (née Santaniello) Matano. After attending La Salle Academy and Our Lady of Providence Seminary College, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in philosophy, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop James Hickey on December 17, 1971, in St. Peter's Basilica. From the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Matano earned his Licentiate of Sacred Theology (1972) and Doctorate in Canon Law (1983).

He served as assistant pastor in Johnston (1972–1973) and a professor at his alma mater of Our Lady of Providence Seminary College (1972–77) before becoming Diocesan Director of Priests' Personnel in 1977. Matano was diocesan assistant Chancellor in 1980. He pursued his graduate studies in Rome until 1983. Upon his return, he served as Vicar for Administration and Co-Chancellor until 1991, when he was made secretary to the American nuncio, Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan.

Matano was Providence's Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia from 1992 to 1997, when he returned to pastoral work, serving as a parish priest until 2000 at St. Sebastian's Church in Providence, RI. From 1995 to 2000, he served as a Special Lecturer in the Undergraduate and Graduate Departments of Theology at Providence College. In January 2000, Matano returned to his service in the American nunciature as secretary to the Nuncio, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera. He was raised to the rank of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness in 1985 and Protonotary Apostolic in 1993.

On March 3, 2005, Matano was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 19 from Archbishop Montalvo Higuera, with Archbishop Seán Patrick O'Malley, OFM Cap, and Bishop Kenneth Angell serving as co-consecrators. Matano later succeeded Angell as the ninth Bishop of Burlington on November 9 of that same year. Matano currently sits on the Board of Trustees of St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts.

In December 2008, he attended a trial in the city of Burlington in order to hear about unresolved clerical abuse affairs that occurred within the diocese in the 1970s.

On November 6, 2013, he was named to succeed Bishop Matthew H. Clark as bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, NY. His installation took place on January 3, 2014.

See also

• Catholic Church hierarchy
• Catholic Church in the United States
• Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
• List of Catholic bishops of the United States
• Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

References

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Kenneth Anthony Angell	Bishop of Burlington 2005–2014	Succeeded by Christopher J. Coyne
Preceded by Matthew H. Clark	Bishop of Rochester 2014–Present	Incumbent