Joseph Anthony Ferrario - Auxiliary Bishop

Auxiliary Bishop

On staff at the Saint Stephen Diocesan Seminary, Honolulu on the island of O`ahu, Ferrario was appointed auxiliary bishop of Honolulu on November 8, 1977. On January 13, 1978, he was consecrated titular bishop of Cusae and auxiliary to the Bishop of Honolulu.

Msgr. Charles Kekumano, Hawai‘i's first native-born priest named a domestic prelate by Blessed Pope John XXIII, left the diocese to work in the Diocese of Juneau in Alaska when Ferrario was elevated to the episcopate.

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