David John Malloy

David John Malloy (born February 3, 1956) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois.

Early life and education

Malloy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor's degree in Biology at Marquette University in 1978. After completing a year of theology at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, he studied theology at the Pontifical North American College, Rome and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1979 to 1982.

Ordination and ministry

Malloy was ordained priest on July 1, 1983 for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

He studied for and obtained a licentiate in Dogmatic theology from the Gregorian from 1982 to 1984. After returning from his licentiate studies at the Gregorian, Malloy served as the Parochial Vicar of Saint John Nepomuk Parish in Racine from 1984 to 1986.

He was summoned to attend the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy from 1986-1990 and studied for both a licentiate in canon law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum from 1986 to 1988. Later he earned a doctorate in theology at the Gregorian University from 1988 to 1990. Besides English, Malloy speaks Italian, Spanish and French.

In the diplomatic service of the Holy See, Malloy served as a secretary to the Apostolic Nuncio in Pakistan (1990–1994), at the Nunciature in Syria (1995), at the United Nations from 1995 to 1998 and was an official of the Prefecture of the Papal Household from 1998 to 2001.

On October 28, 2000 he was named Prelate of Honor of His Holiness for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He returned to the United States as Associate General Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2001 to 2006 and then General Secretary from 2006 until June 2011.

Bishop of Rockford

Malloy was appointed Bishop of Rockford on March 20, 2012, and was consecrated as bishop on May 14, 2012 by Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago. Malloy's predecessor Thomas Doran and Jerome Listecki, the Archbishop of Milwaukee, served as co-consecrators. At the time of his appointment as Bishop of Rockford, Malloy was serving as pastor of Saint Francis de Sales Parish in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Upon his appointment as Bishop of Rockford, Malloy joined Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg and Dennis Schnurr of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati as former USCCB General Secretaries named bishops in the United States.

In January 2017 Malloy sent priests of his diocese a letter directing, among other things, "that no Masses be celebrated ad orientem without my permission;" this despite the fact that the guiding document on the liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium from the Second Vatican Council has been interpreted to say otherwise by the highest ranking official within the Church on the matter; Cardinal Robert Sarah of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Malloy's letter also stipulated that the "Tridentine Mass" (which the Church actually refers to the "Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite" ) was not to be celebrated without his permission "in keeping with Art. 5 § 1 of Summorum Pontificum,". That part of Summorum Pontificum essentially states that stable groups within parish communities requesting the offering of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass should be granted the right to worship in this way by their priests, at their Bishop's appraisal. Summorum Pontificum also states that priests may at any time and without permission offer Masses in the Extraordinary Form if little to no congregation is present.