David M. O'Connell

CM David Michael OConnell (an haife shi a ranar 21 ga Afrilu, 1955) shugaban cocin Katolika ne na Amurka wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Bishop na Trenton a New Jersey tun daga 2010. Shi memba ne na Congregation of the Mission ('yan Vincentians) kuma tsohon shugaban Jami'ar Katolika ta Amurka (CUA).

Tarihin Rayuwa

Rayuwar farko da ilimi

An haifi David O'Connell a ranar 21 ga Afrilu, 1955, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'yan Arthur J. da June O'Connell huɗu. Ya girma a kusa da Langhorne, Pennsylvania . Tun yana ƙarami yana son firistocin Katolika, sai ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta St. Joseph Preparatory da ke Princeton, New Jersey .

Bayan kammala karatunsa na sakandare, O'Connell ya shiga Jami'ar Niagara da ke Lewiston, New York. Ya sami digiri na farko a fannin falsafa daga Niagara a shekarar 1978. Ya ci gaba da karatunsa na firist a Mary Immaculate Seminary da ke Northampton, Pennsylvania, inda ya sami digiri na biyu a fannin Allahntaka a shekarar 1981 da kuma digiri na biyu a fannin tauhidi a fannin ɗabi'a a shekarar 1983.

Naɗi da hidima

Joseph McShea ya naɗa O'Connell firist na Vincentians a ranar 29 ga Mayu, 1982, a cikin chapel na Mary Immaculate Seminary. Bayan naɗa shi, Vincentians sun naɗa O'Connell a matsayin malami a Makarantar Sakandare ta Katolika ta Archbishop Wood da ke Warminster, Pennsylvania, inda ya koyar da azuzuwan addini kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin darektan ayyukan ɗalibai.

O'Connell ya koma Washington DC a shekarar 1985 don yin karatu a Makarantar Shari'ar Canon ta CUA. A wannan lokacin, ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin magatakarda kuma mataimakin farfesa a fannin shari'ar canon, tauhidi, da falsafa a Mary Immaculate Seminary. CUA ta ba O'Connell Lasisi na Shari'ar Canon a shekarar 1987 da kuma Likita a fannin Shari'ar Canon a shekarar 1990. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin alkali na coci da kuma mai ba da shawara kan shari'a don:

• Diocese na Harrisburg (1987 zuwa 1998)
• Diocese na Birmingham (1987 zuwa 1993)
• Diocese na Scranton (1988 zuwa 1998)

Tsakanin 1990 da 1998, O'Connell ya yi aiki a Jami'ar St. John da ke birnin New York a matsayin mataimakin shugaban jami'a, farfesa a fannin tauhidi da nazarin addini, shugaban jami'a da kuma shugaban malamai . An nada O'Connell a matsayin mataimakin shugaban jami'ar a 1995 kuma mataimakin lauya a 1996.

Shugaban Jami'ar Katolika ta Amurka

A shekarar 1998, an naɗa O'Connell a matsayin shugaban CUA. A lokacin rantsar da shi, O'Connell ya karɓi rantsuwar amincewa mai cike da ce-ce-ku-ce, yana nuna goyon bayansa ga Ex Corde Ecclesiae, wanda Paparoma John Paul na Biyu ya bayar a shekarar 1990. An soki takardar a matsayin hari kan 'yancin ilimi a jami'o'in Katolika.

An naɗa O'Connell a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga Cocin Vatican don Ilimin Katolika a shekarar 2005. A shekarar 2006, CUA ta naɗa O'Connell a matsayin Farfesa na Jami'ar John Joseph Keane na wannan shekarar. A ranar 2 ga Oktoba, 2009, O'Connell ya sanar da cewa zai yi murabus daga shugabancin CUA a watan Agusta na 2010.

Coadjutor Bishop kuma Bishop na Trenton

Jami'ar Katolika ta Amurka, Washington, DC (2019)

A ranar 4 ga Yuni, 2010, Paparoma Benedict XVI ya naɗa O'Connell bishop na Trenton don taimaka wa Bishop John M. Smith . O'Connell ya karɓi nadinsa na bishop a ranar 30 ga Yuli, 2010, daga Smith, tare da Archbishops John J. Myers da Donald Wuerl waɗanda ke aiki a matsayin masu tsarkakewa, a Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption da ke Trenton. O'Connell ya zaɓi taken bishop ɗinsa: Ministrare non ministrari, ma'ana, "Don yin hidima ba don a yi masa hidima ba" ( Mark 10:45 ). A matsayinsa na bishop na coadjutor, O'Connell ya maye gurbin Smith kai tsaye a ranar 1 ga Disamba, 2010, lokacin da ya yi ritaya.