The Second Archbishop of the Military Ordinariate of the United States of America, Monsignor Joseph Thomas Dimino was born in New York and entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie, New York, after attending Cathedral College. Ordained priest on June 4, 1949, he earned a master's degree at the Catholic University of America in 1962 and had various parish assignments in New York after his ordination and was commissioned a Navy chaplain in 1953. At the time, military chaplains fell under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of New York, within the structure known as the Military Ordinariate.
After 25 years as a Navy chaplain, Father Dimino retired from the service with the rank of captain and was assigned as chancellor of the Ordinariate in 1977.
By the time the Ordinariate became a formal Archdiocese in 1985, he helped through the transition as an auxiliary bishop, having been appointed a bishop in 1983 by St. John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Hyccarum at 60 years of age on May 10 that year from Cardinal Terence J. Cooke, assisted by Archbishop John Joseph Ryan and Bishop Louis Edward Gelineau.
When the named Archbishop Ryan retired in 1991, Bishop Dimino became the Second Archbishop for the Military Services. He retired at the age of 74 in 1997, after health problems the previous year, being succeeded by Msgr. Edwin Frederick O'Brien.
Spending his last years in a community for the elderly run by the Little Sisters of the Poor in northeast Washington, D.C., he passed away there on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, aged 91. Funeral Mass, presided by Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Ordinariate of the United States, was said in the crypt church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Tuesday, December 2, saw also the participation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington; AMS Auxiliary Bishops Richard B. Higgins, Neal J. Buckon, and Robert J. Coyle; Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Francis X. Roque; Monsignor John J.M. Foster, AMS Vicar General; Father Christopher R. Armstrong, J.C.D., AMS Judicial Vicar; Father Aidan Logan OCSO., AMS Vocations Director; and Msgr. Aloysius Callaghan, former AMS Vicar General, Rector of St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. The AMS Chancellor, Deacon Mike Yakir, assisted.
Interment followed at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Rite of Committal presided by Archbishop Broglio.
After 25 years as a Navy chaplain, Father Dimino retired from the service with the rank of captain and was assigned as chancellor of the Ordinariate in 1977.
By the time the Ordinariate became a formal Archdiocese in 1985, he helped through the transition as an auxiliary bishop, having been appointed a bishop in 1983 by St. John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Hyccarum at 60 years of age on May 10 that year from Cardinal Terence J. Cooke, assisted by Archbishop John Joseph Ryan and Bishop Louis Edward Gelineau.
When the named Archbishop Ryan retired in 1991, Bishop Dimino became the Second Archbishop for the Military Services. He retired at the age of 74 in 1997, after health problems the previous year, being succeeded by Msgr. Edwin Frederick O'Brien.
Spending his last years in a community for the elderly run by the Little Sisters of the Poor in northeast Washington, D.C., he passed away there on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, aged 91. Funeral Mass, presided by Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Ordinariate of the United States, was said in the crypt church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Tuesday, December 2, saw also the participation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington; AMS Auxiliary Bishops Richard B. Higgins, Neal J. Buckon, and Robert J. Coyle; Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Francis X. Roque; Monsignor John J.M. Foster, AMS Vicar General; Father Christopher R. Armstrong, J.C.D., AMS Judicial Vicar; Father Aidan Logan OCSO., AMS Vocations Director; and Msgr. Aloysius Callaghan, former AMS Vicar General, Rector of St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. The AMS Chancellor, Deacon Mike Yakir, assisted.
Interment followed at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Rite of Committal presided by Archbishop Broglio.
The Second Archbishop of the Military Ordinariate of the United States of America, Monsignor Joseph Thomas Dimino was born in New York and entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie, New York, after attending Cathedral College. Ordained priest on June 4, 1949, he earned a master's degree at the Catholic University of America in 1962 and had various parish assignments in New York after his ordination and was commissioned a Navy chaplain in 1953. At the time, military chaplains fell under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of New York, within the structure known as the Military Ordinariate.
After 25 years as a Navy chaplain, Father Dimino retired from the service with the rank of captain and was assigned as chancellor of the Ordinariate in 1977.
By the time the Ordinariate became a formal Archdiocese in 1985, he helped through the transition as an auxiliary bishop, having been appointed a bishop in 1983 by St. John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Hyccarum at 60 years of age on May 10 that year from Cardinal Terence J. Cooke, assisted by Archbishop John Joseph Ryan and Bishop Louis Edward Gelineau.
When the named Archbishop Ryan retired in 1991, Bishop Dimino became the Second Archbishop for the Military Services. He retired at the age of 74 in 1997, after health problems the previous year, being succeeded by Msgr. Edwin Frederick O'Brien.
Spending his last years in a community for the elderly run by the Little Sisters of the Poor in northeast Washington, D.C., he passed away there on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, aged 91. Funeral Mass, presided by Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Ordinariate of the United States, was said in the crypt church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Tuesday, December 2, saw also the participation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington; AMS Auxiliary Bishops Richard B. Higgins, Neal J. Buckon, and Robert J. Coyle; Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Francis X. Roque; Monsignor John J.M. Foster, AMS Vicar General; Father Christopher R. Armstrong, J.C.D., AMS Judicial Vicar; Father Aidan Logan OCSO., AMS Vocations Director; and Msgr. Aloysius Callaghan, former AMS Vicar General, Rector of St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. The AMS Chancellor, Deacon Mike Yakir, assisted.
Interment followed at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Rite of Committal presided by Archbishop Broglio.
After 25 years as a Navy chaplain, Father Dimino retired from the service with the rank of captain and was assigned as chancellor of the Ordinariate in 1977.
By the time the Ordinariate became a formal Archdiocese in 1985, he helped through the transition as an auxiliary bishop, having been appointed a bishop in 1983 by St. John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Hyccarum at 60 years of age on May 10 that year from Cardinal Terence J. Cooke, assisted by Archbishop John Joseph Ryan and Bishop Louis Edward Gelineau.
When the named Archbishop Ryan retired in 1991, Bishop Dimino became the Second Archbishop for the Military Services. He retired at the age of 74 in 1997, after health problems the previous year, being succeeded by Msgr. Edwin Frederick O'Brien.
Spending his last years in a community for the elderly run by the Little Sisters of the Poor in northeast Washington, D.C., he passed away there on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, aged 91. Funeral Mass, presided by Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Ordinariate of the United States, was said in the crypt church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Tuesday, December 2, saw also the participation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington; AMS Auxiliary Bishops Richard B. Higgins, Neal J. Buckon, and Robert J. Coyle; Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Francis X. Roque; Monsignor John J.M. Foster, AMS Vicar General; Father Christopher R. Armstrong, J.C.D., AMS Judicial Vicar; Father Aidan Logan OCSO., AMS Vocations Director; and Msgr. Aloysius Callaghan, former AMS Vicar General, Rector of St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. The AMS Chancellor, Deacon Mike Yakir, assisted.
Interment followed at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Rite of Committal presided by Archbishop Broglio.
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