{"id":27374,"date":"2017-01-07T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=27374\/"},"modified":"2017-01-07T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T04:10:37","slug":"bishop-richard-lennon-resigns-cleveland-catholic-diocese-citing-health-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/bishop-richard-lennon-resigns-cleveland-catholic-diocese-citing-health-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Richard Lennon resigns from Cleveland Catholic Diocese citing health reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CLEVELAND, Ohio &#8211; The Diocese of Cleveland released a statement early Wednesday announcing the retirement of Bishop Richard Lennon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The release cited ongoing health issues as the reason Lennon is retiring. At a Wednesday morning news conference, the diocese disclosed that Lennon suffers from vascular dementia, a cognitive impairment caused by reduced blood flow to the brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of now, Lennon&#8217;s duties will be performed by Bishop Daniel Edward Thomas from Toledo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lennon, who was installed in May of 2006 as the 10th bishop to lead the Cleveland diocese, was hospitalized in February, 2016, for chest pains and underwent an emergency heart procedure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdvanceInt_wrapper_div\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_27375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27375\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-600x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-600x373.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-675x420.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-200x124.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-400x249.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-500x311.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon addresses the crowd before he unlocks the chained Holy Door of Mercy at the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in downtown Cleveland on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015. (Lisa DeJong\/The Plain Dealer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Cleveland diocese encompasses eight counties. Lennon is best known here for shuttering 30-some churches in Northeast Ohio in 2009 and 2010, a decision that sparked fervent backlash from some of the 700,000 parishioners in the diocese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More recently, Lennon&#8217;s career in Cleveland was marked by much-needed and successful fundraising campaigns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Boston native, Lennon was appointed interim administrator of the Boston Archdiocese in 2002, when longtime Cardinal Bernard Law resigned amidst the sex-abuse scandal involving priests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lennon went on to serve as a bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston for five years before being sent to Cleveland to replace retiring Bishop Anthony Pilla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his tenure in Cleveland, Lennon displayed a progressive bent at times, choosing for instance to stop charging $450 for marriage annulments two years before the Vatican ordered all Catholic churches to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he could also draw a hard line. He prevented students at Catholic schools in the diocese from participating in the social media phenomenon known as the ALS ice bucket challenges that raised money to fight Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease because that research includes the destruction of embryonic stem cells.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lennon also required teachers at diocese-run schools to sign a morality clause.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local Catholics will always remember Lennon for his decision to close dozens of churches because of declining membership. His actions were met with protest and in the case of 11 churches, the Vatican reversed Lennon&#8217;s decision to close them claiming he did not follow proper procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Reporter Sara Dorn contributed to this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"author vcard\"><a id=\"name_author\" class=\"bl\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.cleveland.com\/user\/pkrouse\/posts.html\">Peter Krouse, cleveland.com <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CLEVELAND, Ohio &#8211; The Diocese of Cleveland released a statement early Wednesday announcing the retirement of Bishop Richard Lennon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The release cited ongoing health issues as the reason Lennon is retiring. At a Wednesday morning news conference, the diocese disclosed that Lennon suffers from vascular dementia, a cognitive impairment caused by reduced blood flow to the brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of now, Lennon&#8217;s duties will be performed by Bishop Daniel Edward Thomas from Toledo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lennon, who was installed in May of 2006 as the 10th bishop to lead the Cleveland diocese, was hospitalized in February, 2016, for chest pains and underwent an emergency heart procedure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdvanceInt_wrapper_div\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n[caption id=\"attachment_27375\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-600x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-600x373.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-675x420.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-200x124.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-400x249.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Bishop-Richard-Lennon-500x311.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon addresses the crowd before he unlocks the chained Holy Door of Mercy at the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in downtown Cleveland on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015. (Lisa DeJong\/The Plain Dealer)[\/caption]\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Cleveland diocese encompasses eight counties. Lennon is best known here for shuttering 30-some churches in Northeast Ohio in 2009 and 2010, a decision that sparked fervent backlash from some of the 700,000 parishioners in the diocese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More recently, Lennon&#8217;s career in Cleveland was marked by much-needed and successful fundraising campaigns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Boston native, Lennon was appointed interim administrator of the Boston Archdiocese in 2002, when longtime Cardinal Bernard Law resigned amidst the sex-abuse scandal involving priests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lennon went on to serve as a bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston for five years before being sent to Cleveland to replace retiring Bishop Anthony Pilla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his tenure in Cleveland, Lennon displayed a progressive bent at times, choosing for instance to stop charging $450 for marriage annulments two years before the Vatican ordered all Catholic churches to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he could also draw a hard line. He prevented students at Catholic schools in the diocese from participating in the social media phenomenon known as the ALS ice bucket challenges that raised money to fight Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease because that research includes the destruction of embryonic stem cells.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lennon also required teachers at diocese-run schools to sign a morality clause.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local Catholics will always remember Lennon for his decision to close dozens of churches because of declining membership. His actions were met with protest and in the case of 11 churches, the Vatican reversed Lennon&#8217;s decision to close them claiming he did not follow proper procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Reporter Sara Dorn contributed to this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"author vcard\"><a id=\"name_author\" class=\"bl\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.cleveland.com\/user\/pkrouse\/posts.html\">Peter Krouse, cleveland.com <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bishop Richard Lennon resigns from Cleveland Catholic Diocese citing health reasons &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/bishop-richard-lennon-resigns-cleveland-catholic-diocese-citing-health-reasons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bishop Richard Lennon resigns from Cleveland Catholic Diocese citing health reasons &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Diocese of Cleveland released a statement early Wednesday announcing the retirement of Bishop Richard Lennon. The release cited ongoing health issues as the reason Lennon is retiring. At a Wednesday morning news conference, the diocese disclosed that Lennon suffers from vascular dementia, a cognitive impairment caused by reduced blood flow to the brain. As of now, Lennon&#039;s duties will be performed by Bishop Daniel Edward Thomas from Toledo. Lennon, who was installed in May of 2006 as the 10th bishop to lead the Cleveland diocese, was hospitalized in February, 2016, for chest pains and underwent an emergency heart procedure.       The Cleveland diocese encompasses eight counties. Lennon is best known here for shuttering 30-some churches in Northeast Ohio in 2009 and 2010, a decision that sparked fervent backlash from some of the 700,000 parishioners in the diocese. More recently, Lennon&#039;s career in Cleveland was marked by much-needed and successful fundraising campaigns. A Boston native, Lennon was appointed interim administrator of the Boston Archdiocese in 2002, when longtime Cardinal Bernard Law resigned amidst the sex-abuse scandal involving priests. Lennon went on to serve as a bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston for five years before being sent to Cleveland to replace retiring Bishop Anthony Pilla. During his tenure in Cleveland, Lennon displayed a progressive bent at times, choosing for instance to stop charging $450 for marriage annulments two years before the Vatican ordered all Catholic churches to do so. But he could also draw a hard line. He prevented students at Catholic schools in the diocese from participating in the social media phenomenon known as the ALS ice bucket challenges that raised money to fight Lou Gehrig&#039;s Disease because that research includes the destruction of embryonic stem cells. Lennon also required teachers at diocese-run schools to sign a morality clause. Local Catholics will always remember Lennon for his decision to close dozens of churches because of declining membership. His actions were met with protest and in the case of 11 churches, the Vatican reversed Lennon&#039;s decision to close them claiming he did not follow proper procedures. Reporter Sara Dorn contributed to this post. 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The release cited ongoing health issues as the reason Lennon is retiring. At a Wednesday morning news conference, the diocese disclosed that Lennon suffers from vascular dementia, a cognitive impairment caused by reduced blood flow to the brain. As of now, Lennon's duties will be performed by Bishop Daniel Edward Thomas from Toledo. Lennon, who was installed in May of 2006 as the 10th bishop to lead the Cleveland diocese, was hospitalized in February, 2016, for chest pains and underwent an emergency heart procedure.       The Cleveland diocese encompasses eight counties. Lennon is best known here for shuttering 30-some churches in Northeast Ohio in 2009 and 2010, a decision that sparked fervent backlash from some of the 700,000 parishioners in the diocese. More recently, Lennon's career in Cleveland was marked by much-needed and successful fundraising campaigns. A Boston native, Lennon was appointed interim administrator of the Boston Archdiocese in 2002, when longtime Cardinal Bernard Law resigned amidst the sex-abuse scandal involving priests. Lennon went on to serve as a bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston for five years before being sent to Cleveland to replace retiring Bishop Anthony Pilla. During his tenure in Cleveland, Lennon displayed a progressive bent at times, choosing for instance to stop charging $450 for marriage annulments two years before the Vatican ordered all Catholic churches to do so. But he could also draw a hard line. He prevented students at Catholic schools in the diocese from participating in the social media phenomenon known as the ALS ice bucket challenges that raised money to fight Lou Gehrig's Disease because that research includes the destruction of embryonic stem cells. Lennon also required teachers at diocese-run schools to sign a morality clause. Local Catholics will always remember Lennon for his decision to close dozens of churches because of declining membership. His actions were met with protest and in the case of 11 churches, the Vatican reversed Lennon's decision to close them claiming he did not follow proper procedures. Reporter Sara Dorn contributed to this post. 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