Background
Adamec was born in Bannister, Michigan and studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical Nepomucene College in Rome and earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University.
Adamec was born in Bannister, Michigan and studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical Nepomucene College in Rome and earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University.
Attended, Michigan State University. Licentiate in Sacred Theology, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome.
Adamec returned to serve the Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan where he served in numerous capacities including Secretary of the Bishop and Master of Ceremonies, and Chancellor of the Diocese. In 1985, he was named a Prelate of Honor. Adamec also served as the National President of the Slovak Catholic Federation, a position he was elected to in 1971 and held for seventeen years.
On March 12, 1987, Adamec was named the Bishop of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese.
He was consecrated on May 20, 1987 in the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament by Jozef Cardinal Tomko. His retirement and the appointment of his successor were announced on January 14, 2011.
Mark Leonard Bartchak, of the Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania, was named his successor. On March 1, 2016, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced that as Bishop, Adamec was at the forefront of a major cover-up scandal involving the sexual assault of hundreds of children by Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown priests.
Episcopal moderator Slovak Catholic Federation. Member National Conference Catholic Bishops (joint committee Orthodox and Roman Catholic Bishops, ad hoc committee for aid to the Church in Center and Eastern Europe and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics).