Former Auxiliary for the Military Ordinariate of the United States of America and Bishop of the Titular See of Flenucleta, Monsignor Joseph Walter Estabrook was born in Kingston, New York, on May 19, 1944. An alumnus of St. Bonaventure University and Christ the King Seminary in Olean, New York, he was ordained to the priesthood on May 30, 1969, for the Diocese of Albany, and served as an associate at St. Vincent DePaul parish from 1969 until 1971. Additionally, he served as chaplain to the Parsons Child Development Center in Albany.
He was appointed as the first Family Life Director for the Diocese in 1971 and served in that capacity until joining the Navy as a chaplain in 1977. As a Navy chaplain he served on many ships throughout Europe, and then with the Marines at the Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Virginia. After completion of studies at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia in 1983, he was assigned to the Chief of Chaplains Office in Washington, D.C., and then to USS CARL VINSON (CVN70), an aircraft carrier serving the Pacific Fleet.
Father Estabrook graduated from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, in 1989, after successfully completing graduate studies in Ethics. He served at the Navy Air Station, Sigonella, Sicily and supported troops in the First Gulf War both in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He was the Chaplain Basic Course Officer, Navy Chaplain School, Newport, Rhode Island and returned to Washington, DC as the Executive Assistant to the Navy Chief of Chaplains. He also was appointed as the Ethics Consultant to the Navy Surgeon General and served on the Department of Defense Health Affairs Ethics Panel until 1997.
He was Fleet Chaplain, U.S. Pacific Fleet, with additional duty as the Senior Chaplain of the U.S. Pacific Unified Command from 1997 to 2000. Monsignor Estabrook reported aboard as Command Chaplain, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay in September 2000, until his nomination to the episcopacy on July 3, 2004 and retirement from the Navy in September of that year.
Bishop Estabrook became a Captain in the U.S. Navy in September 1995. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit with two gold stars, the Meritorious Service Medal with a gold star, a Navy Commendation Medal with a gold star, four Meritorious. Unit Awards as well as a number of other medals and awards. He was made Honorary Prelate to His Holiness and given the title of Monsignor in March 1997, appointed Auxiliary of the Military Ordinariate for the United States by Pope John Paul II on May 7, 2004, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Flenucleta on the following July 3, from Archbishop Edwin Frederick O'Brien, assisted by Bishops Howard James Hubbard William Kenneth Weigand, at the at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington.
Assigned to care for the faithful of the Archdiocese for the Military on the West Coast and Mid Western States since that time and resided at Our Lady of Fatima Parish, San Clemente, California. A Fourth Degree in the Knights of Columbus and a Knight of The Holy Sepulcher, Bishop Estabrook died during the morning of Saturday, February 4, 2012, following a fifteen month battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 67, in Houston.
His body was received at the Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church, 8710 Mount Vernon Highway, Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday, February 9. Mass of Resurrection was celebrated the next morning at 10.30 am., with Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio presiding. Father Ed Condon, a retired Navy chaplain from the Archdiocese of Boston, was homilist. The next day, viewing and Requiem Mass were held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Albany, presided by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, followed by interment at Calvary Cemetery, Albany, New York, with military honors.
He was appointed as the first Family Life Director for the Diocese in 1971 and served in that capacity until joining the Navy as a chaplain in 1977. As a Navy chaplain he served on many ships throughout Europe, and then with the Marines at the Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Virginia. After completion of studies at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia in 1983, he was assigned to the Chief of Chaplains Office in Washington, D.C., and then to USS CARL VINSON (CVN70), an aircraft carrier serving the Pacific Fleet.
Father Estabrook graduated from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, in 1989, after successfully completing graduate studies in Ethics. He served at the Navy Air Station, Sigonella, Sicily and supported troops in the First Gulf War both in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He was the Chaplain Basic Course Officer, Navy Chaplain School, Newport, Rhode Island and returned to Washington, DC as the Executive Assistant to the Navy Chief of Chaplains. He also was appointed as the Ethics Consultant to the Navy Surgeon General and served on the Department of Defense Health Affairs Ethics Panel until 1997.
He was Fleet Chaplain, U.S. Pacific Fleet, with additional duty as the Senior Chaplain of the U.S. Pacific Unified Command from 1997 to 2000. Monsignor Estabrook reported aboard as Command Chaplain, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay in September 2000, until his nomination to the episcopacy on July 3, 2004 and retirement from the Navy in September of that year.
Bishop Estabrook became a Captain in the U.S. Navy in September 1995. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit with two gold stars, the Meritorious Service Medal with a gold star, a Navy Commendation Medal with a gold star, four Meritorious. Unit Awards as well as a number of other medals and awards. He was made Honorary Prelate to His Holiness and given the title of Monsignor in March 1997, appointed Auxiliary of the Military Ordinariate for the United States by Pope John Paul II on May 7, 2004, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Flenucleta on the following July 3, from Archbishop Edwin Frederick O'Brien, assisted by Bishops Howard James Hubbard William Kenneth Weigand, at the at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington.
Assigned to care for the faithful of the Archdiocese for the Military on the West Coast and Mid Western States since that time and resided at Our Lady of Fatima Parish, San Clemente, California. A Fourth Degree in the Knights of Columbus and a Knight of The Holy Sepulcher, Bishop Estabrook died during the morning of Saturday, February 4, 2012, following a fifteen month battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 67, in Houston.
His body was received at the Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church, 8710 Mount Vernon Highway, Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday, February 9. Mass of Resurrection was celebrated the next morning at 10.30 am., with Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio presiding. Father Ed Condon, a retired Navy chaplain from the Archdiocese of Boston, was homilist. The next day, viewing and Requiem Mass were held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Albany, presided by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, followed by interment at Calvary Cemetery, Albany, New York, with military honors.
Former Auxiliary for the Military Ordinariate of the United States of America and Bishop of the Titular See of Flenucleta, Monsignor Joseph Walter Estabrook was born in Kingston, New York, on May 19, 1944. An alumnus of St. Bonaventure University and Christ the King Seminary in Olean, New York, he was ordained to the priesthood on May 30, 1969, for the Diocese of Albany, and served as an associate at St. Vincent DePaul parish from 1969 until 1971. Additionally, he served as chaplain to the Parsons Child Development Center in Albany.
He was appointed as the first Family Life Director for the Diocese in 1971 and served in that capacity until joining the Navy as a chaplain in 1977. As a Navy chaplain he served on many ships throughout Europe, and then with the Marines at the Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Virginia. After completion of studies at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia in 1983, he was assigned to the Chief of Chaplains Office in Washington, D.C., and then to USS CARL VINSON (CVN70), an aircraft carrier serving the Pacific Fleet.
Father Estabrook graduated from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, in 1989, after successfully completing graduate studies in Ethics. He served at the Navy Air Station, Sigonella, Sicily and supported troops in the First Gulf War both in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He was the Chaplain Basic Course Officer, Navy Chaplain School, Newport, Rhode Island and returned to Washington, DC as the Executive Assistant to the Navy Chief of Chaplains. He also was appointed as the Ethics Consultant to the Navy Surgeon General and served on the Department of Defense Health Affairs Ethics Panel until 1997.
He was Fleet Chaplain, U.S. Pacific Fleet, with additional duty as the Senior Chaplain of the U.S. Pacific Unified Command from 1997 to 2000. Monsignor Estabrook reported aboard as Command Chaplain, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay in September 2000, until his nomination to the episcopacy on July 3, 2004 and retirement from the Navy in September of that year.
Bishop Estabrook became a Captain in the U.S. Navy in September 1995. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit with two gold stars, the Meritorious Service Medal with a gold star, a Navy Commendation Medal with a gold star, four Meritorious. Unit Awards as well as a number of other medals and awards. He was made Honorary Prelate to His Holiness and given the title of Monsignor in March 1997, appointed Auxiliary of the Military Ordinariate for the United States by Pope John Paul II on May 7, 2004, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Flenucleta on the following July 3, from Archbishop Edwin Frederick O'Brien, assisted by Bishops Howard James Hubbard William Kenneth Weigand, at the at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington.
Assigned to care for the faithful of the Archdiocese for the Military on the West Coast and Mid Western States since that time and resided at Our Lady of Fatima Parish, San Clemente, California. A Fourth Degree in the Knights of Columbus and a Knight of The Holy Sepulcher, Bishop Estabrook died during the morning of Saturday, February 4, 2012, following a fifteen month battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 67, in Houston.
His body was received at the Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church, 8710 Mount Vernon Highway, Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday, February 9. Mass of Resurrection was celebrated the next morning at 10.30 am., with Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio presiding. Father Ed Condon, a retired Navy chaplain from the Archdiocese of Boston, was homilist. The next day, viewing and Requiem Mass were held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Albany, presided by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, followed by interment at Calvary Cemetery, Albany, New York, with military honors.
He was appointed as the first Family Life Director for the Diocese in 1971 and served in that capacity until joining the Navy as a chaplain in 1977. As a Navy chaplain he served on many ships throughout Europe, and then with the Marines at the Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Virginia. After completion of studies at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia in 1983, he was assigned to the Chief of Chaplains Office in Washington, D.C., and then to USS CARL VINSON (CVN70), an aircraft carrier serving the Pacific Fleet.
Father Estabrook graduated from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, in 1989, after successfully completing graduate studies in Ethics. He served at the Navy Air Station, Sigonella, Sicily and supported troops in the First Gulf War both in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He was the Chaplain Basic Course Officer, Navy Chaplain School, Newport, Rhode Island and returned to Washington, DC as the Executive Assistant to the Navy Chief of Chaplains. He also was appointed as the Ethics Consultant to the Navy Surgeon General and served on the Department of Defense Health Affairs Ethics Panel until 1997.
He was Fleet Chaplain, U.S. Pacific Fleet, with additional duty as the Senior Chaplain of the U.S. Pacific Unified Command from 1997 to 2000. Monsignor Estabrook reported aboard as Command Chaplain, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay in September 2000, until his nomination to the episcopacy on July 3, 2004 and retirement from the Navy in September of that year.
Bishop Estabrook became a Captain in the U.S. Navy in September 1995. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit with two gold stars, the Meritorious Service Medal with a gold star, a Navy Commendation Medal with a gold star, four Meritorious. Unit Awards as well as a number of other medals and awards. He was made Honorary Prelate to His Holiness and given the title of Monsignor in March 1997, appointed Auxiliary of the Military Ordinariate for the United States by Pope John Paul II on May 7, 2004, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Flenucleta on the following July 3, from Archbishop Edwin Frederick O'Brien, assisted by Bishops Howard James Hubbard William Kenneth Weigand, at the at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington.
Assigned to care for the faithful of the Archdiocese for the Military on the West Coast and Mid Western States since that time and resided at Our Lady of Fatima Parish, San Clemente, California. A Fourth Degree in the Knights of Columbus and a Knight of The Holy Sepulcher, Bishop Estabrook died during the morning of Saturday, February 4, 2012, following a fifteen month battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 67, in Houston.
His body was received at the Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church, 8710 Mount Vernon Highway, Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday, February 9. Mass of Resurrection was celebrated the next morning at 10.30 am., with Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio presiding. Father Ed Condon, a retired Navy chaplain from the Archdiocese of Boston, was homilist. The next day, viewing and Requiem Mass were held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Albany, presided by Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, followed by interment at Calvary Cemetery, Albany, New York, with military honors.
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