Bishop D'Arcy to receive award for service to Notre Dame

Published: 2003-12-11

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) -- Bishop John M. D'Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend will receive the 2003 Father Howard Kenna Award for service to the University of Notre Dame and the Holy Cross Congregation, which founded the school. "As pastor of our home diocese, Bishop D'Arcy has been a wise leader, a kind friend and an apostolic witness to the Notre Dame and Holy Cross communities," said Holy Cross Father Edward Malloy, university president, in a statement. The Father Kenna Award was established in 1988 by Notre Dame and the Indiana province of the Congregation of Holy Cross in memory of the priest who was provincial superior when he died in 1973. Bishop D'Arcy, a Boston native and the son of Irish immigrants, was born in 1932 and ordained to the priesthood in 1957 for the Boston Archdiocese. He was ordained as an auxiliary bishop of Boston in 1975 and was appointed bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend in 1985.

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