Background
Dorsey, Norbert M. was born on December 14, 1929 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Leonard Edward and Mary Ann (Dowd) Dorsey.
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Dorsey, Norbert M. was born on December 14, 1929 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Leonard Edward and Mary Ann (Dowd) Dorsey.
Master of Theology, St. Michael's Passionist Monastery, 1956. Maestro Sacred Music, Pontifical Institute Sacred Music, Rome, 1960. Department of Science and Technology, Gregorian University, Rome, 1986.
He was also the Titular Bishop of Mactaris (1986–1990). On April 28, 1956, he was ordained a priest in that order. In 1976, French Pope John Paul II appointed him as Titular Bishop of Mactaris and as the Auxiliary Bishop of Miami on January 19, 1986, and on March 19, 1986, he was consecrated by Archbishop Edward Anthony McCarthy of Miami as the Principal Consecrator: and as Company-Consecrators Bishop Joseph Francis Maguire of the Diocese of Springfield and Bishop Reginald Edward Vincent Arliss, C.P. of the Territorial Prelature of Marbel (now Roman Catholic Diocese of Marbel).
On March 20, 1990, he was appointed the third Bishop of the Diocese of Orlando and on November 13, 2004, he retired upon reaching 75 years of age.
He was given the Peace and Unity Award of the Saint Martin Porres Association of Miami, Florida for building bridges of harmony between races and cultures,1989. The Pierre Toussaint Medallion from the Office of Black Ministry of Archdiocese of New York, presented in ceremony at Saint Patrick"s Cathedral, New York by John Joseph Cardinal O"Connor, for special merit in the service of freedom, human rights, and spiritual values in the Black Community on May 5, 1996.
The Appreciation Award of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 2001. Dorsey died after a long battle with cancer in Orlando, Florida at age 83.