Former Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of San Francisco, Los Angeles born Monsignor George Hugh Niederauer was the only child of George and Elaine Niederauer. Attending St. Catherine's Military School and then St. Anthony High School as a classmate of Cardinal William Levada, following his graduation in 1954, he attended Stanford University. During his freshman year he changed course upon deciding to enter St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, from where in 1959 he earned a bachelor of philosophy degree. Furthering his studies with a bachelor of sacred theology degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a master of arts degree in English literature from Loyola University, Los Angeles in 1962, he furthermore earned a Ph.D. in English literature at USC.
Ordained priest on April 30, 1962, Niederauer served as rector of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo from 1987 to 1992. Appointed the eighth Bishop of Salt Lake City by Pope John Paul II on November 3, 1994, he received his episcopal consecration on January 25 of the following year from Cardinal Roger Mahony assisted by Archbishop William Levada and Bishop Tod David Brown. On December 15, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI named him to succeed the named Msgr. Levada as the eighth Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco, following Levada's appointment to Pope Benedict's former post of Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in the Roman Curia.
Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Communication and a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, on August 29, 2011, Niederauer underwent emergency double by-pass heart surgery. Retiring from office on July 27, 2012, he passed away on May 2, 2017 at Nazareth House in San Rafael at 80 years of age, where he had been living for several months following a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
Ordained priest on April 30, 1962, Niederauer served as rector of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo from 1987 to 1992. Appointed the eighth Bishop of Salt Lake City by Pope John Paul II on November 3, 1994, he received his episcopal consecration on January 25 of the following year from Cardinal Roger Mahony assisted by Archbishop William Levada and Bishop Tod David Brown. On December 15, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI named him to succeed the named Msgr. Levada as the eighth Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco, following Levada's appointment to Pope Benedict's former post of Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in the Roman Curia.
Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Communication and a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, on August 29, 2011, Niederauer underwent emergency double by-pass heart surgery. Retiring from office on July 27, 2012, he passed away on May 2, 2017 at Nazareth House in San Rafael at 80 years of age, where he had been living for several months following a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
Former Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of San Francisco, Los Angeles born Monsignor George Hugh Niederauer was the only child of George and Elaine Niederauer. Attending St. Catherine's Military School and then St. Anthony High School as a classmate of Cardinal William Levada, following his graduation in 1954, he attended Stanford University. During his freshman year he changed course upon deciding to enter St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, from where in 1959 he earned a bachelor of philosophy degree. Furthering his studies with a bachelor of sacred theology degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a master of arts degree in English literature from Loyola University, Los Angeles in 1962, he furthermore earned a Ph.D. in English literature at USC.
Ordained priest on April 30, 1962, Niederauer served as rector of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo from 1987 to 1992. Appointed the eighth Bishop of Salt Lake City by Pope John Paul II on November 3, 1994, he received his episcopal consecration on January 25 of the following year from Cardinal Roger Mahony assisted by Archbishop William Levada and Bishop Tod David Brown. On December 15, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI named him to succeed the named Msgr. Levada as the eighth Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco, following Levada's appointment to Pope Benedict's former post of Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in the Roman Curia.
Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Communication and a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, on August 29, 2011, Niederauer underwent emergency double by-pass heart surgery. Retiring from office on July 27, 2012, he passed away on May 2, 2017 at Nazareth House in San Rafael at 80 years of age, where he had been living for several months following a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
Ordained priest on April 30, 1962, Niederauer served as rector of St. John's Seminary in Camarillo from 1987 to 1992. Appointed the eighth Bishop of Salt Lake City by Pope John Paul II on November 3, 1994, he received his episcopal consecration on January 25 of the following year from Cardinal Roger Mahony assisted by Archbishop William Levada and Bishop Tod David Brown. On December 15, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI named him to succeed the named Msgr. Levada as the eighth Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco, following Levada's appointment to Pope Benedict's former post of Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in the Roman Curia.
Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Communication and a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, on August 29, 2011, Niederauer underwent emergency double by-pass heart surgery. Retiring from office on July 27, 2012, he passed away on May 2, 2017 at Nazareth House in San Rafael at 80 years of age, where he had been living for several months following a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
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