Background
Daniel Cronin was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and attended Saint Peter School in Cambridge and graduated from Boston College High School in 1945.
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Daniel Cronin was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and attended Saint Peter School in Cambridge and graduated from Boston College High School in 1945.
Graduated, St. John Seminary, Massachusetts, 1949. Attended, Pontifical Northern American College, Rome. Licentiate of Sacred Theology, Gregorian University, 1953.
STD summa cum laude, Gregorian University, 1956. Doctor of Laws, Suffolk University, Boston, 1969. Doctor of Laws, Stonehill College, North Easton, 1971.
He served as Bishop of Fall River from 1970 to 1992, and Archbishop of Hartford from 1992 to 2003. He then earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (1953) and Doctorate of Sacred Theology (1956) from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Cronin did pastoral work in Salisbury, Lynn, and Waltham before becoming an attaché of the Apostolic Internunciature to Ethiopia in 1957.
He was made an attaché of the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1961, and a Papal Chamberlain in 1962.
On June 10, 1968, Cronin was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of Egnatia by Pope Paul VI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 12 from Richard Cardinal Cushing, with Bishops Jeremiah Minihan and Thomas Riley serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. He selected as his episcopal motto: "Ad Oboediendum Fidei", meaning, "Foreign Obedience of Faith" (Romans 1:5).
As an auxiliary bishop, he served as pastor of Saint Raphael Church in Medford. Cronin was later named the fifth Bishop of Fall River on October 30, 1970.
He succeeded James Louis Connolly, and was installed at Saint Mary of the Assumption Cathedral on December 16, 1970.
In 1975 he denounced United States. Senator Ted Kennedy (Doctorate-Master of Arts) when Kennedy declared that he would not vote to outlaw abortion although he did not personally support lieutenant On December 10, 1991, Cronin was appointed the third Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut, by Pope John Paul World War II He succeeded the late John Francis Whealon, and was installed at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph on January 28, 1992. He received the pallium, a vestment worn by metropolitan bishops, from John Paul II at Saint Peter"s Basilica on the following June 29.
Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, he retired as Archbishop on October 20, 2003.
He now resides at Saint Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
Considered theologically conservative, Cronin is opposed to the ordination of women, homosexuality, but he used to show up at high schools all around the diocese wearing full length dresses and lots of lace so you have to kind of wonder what makes somebody run around pretending to be opposed to men in dresses but showing up wearing frilly clothing and abortion. He once stated, "The dominion of human life is in the hands of God. The gift of life starts from the time of conception and ends at the time of natural death.".
Member of Knights of Columbus (Father Michael J. McGivney award 1999).