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Most Rev. Victor Galeone, S.T.L.
Bishop Emeritus of St. Augustine

B ishop Victor Galeone was appointed by Pope John Paul II as bishop of St. Augustine
on June 26, 2001, and he was installed at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine
on August 21, 2001. Bishop Galeone, son of the late Angelo and Rita Galeone, was
born in Philadelphia on Sept. 13, 1935, the fifth of six children. His family moved
to Baltimore in 1941. There he attended St. Elizabeth of Hungary School in Highlandtown,
Md. before entering the minor seminary of St. Charles College in Catonsville, Md. in 1949. He
completed his theological studies at the North American College at the Gregorian University in
Rome, Italy.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Martin J. O’Connor in the chapel of the North
American College in Rome on Dec. 18, 1960. He received his S.T.L. (Licentiate in Sacred
Theology) from the Gregorian University in 1961 and his master’s of education degree from
Loyola College in Baltimore in 1969. On his return to the United States in 1961, he served as an
associate pastor, as a teacher and principal, as a pastor in several parishes in the Archdiocese of
Baltimore, and as a missionary in Peru.
While in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, he was the archdiocesan director of the Propagation of
the Faith, and a member of the Priests’ Council, the College of Consultors for the Archdiocese of
Baltimore and the National Board of Directors of the Holy Childhood Association.

Pastoral Letters
• Marriage: A Communion of Life and Love (July 2003)
• Stewardship: A Discipleship of Love (August 2004)

Residence
St. Martin’s Home
601 Maiden Choice Lane, Room 312
Catonsville, MD 21228

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