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N.Y. bishop to lead Palm Beach DioceseBy Associated Press© St. Petersburg Times published July 2, 2003 WEST PALM BEACH - The Vatican quickly appointed a successor for Palm Beach Bishop Sean Patrick O'Malley, who was promoted Tuesday to lead the Boston Archdiocese as it grapples with the fallout from the clerical sex abuse scandal. Gerald Michael Barbarito, the bishop of upstate New York's Diocese of Ogdensburg for the past three years, will be the fourth bishop since 1998 to lead the Diocese of Palm Beach, which has struggled through pedophilia scandals. Bishop Anthony J. O'Connell resigned last year after admitting he molested a student. Four years before, Bishop J. Keith Symons acknowledged he molested five altar boys decades earlier. O'Malley, 59, was named by Pope John Paul II on Tuesday as the successor to Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned from the Boston Archdiocese in December amid public outrage that made it impossible for him to do his job. Barbarito, 53, was ordained a priest in 1976 and was appointed auxiliary bishop in his birthplace of Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1994 to 1999. He then was appointed to the Ogdensburg post. He began his studies for the priesthood at Cathedral Prep Seminary in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, graduating in 1967. He earned a bachelor's degree at Cathedral College in Douglaston, Queens, in 1971, and a master's of divinity at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y. In a statement, Barbarito said he hoped to quickly become part of the diocese "as its new shepherd."  © 2006 • All Rights Reserved • Tampa Bay Times
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