CSF June 2023: Local News 4

The Archdiocese of San Francisco mourns the loss of Bishop Patrick Joseph McGrath. A native of Dublin, Bishop McGrath was ordained in 1970 in Waterford, Ireland, to serve in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Bishop McGrath served at St. Anne of the Sunset Church and as rector and pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral. He also served in the Archdiocesan Tribunal Office, as Moderator of the Curia and Vicar for Clergy.

He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop John Quinn and served as auxiliary bishop of San Francisco from 1989 until 1999. In June 1998, Pope St. John Paul II appointed Bishop McGrath to be the second bishop of the Diocese of San Jose. ■