Background
Mccort, John Jay was born on February 16, 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James and Sarah C. (McCrystal) Mccort.
Mccort, John Jay was born on February 16, 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James and Sarah C. (McCrystal) Mccort.
Educated Louisiana Salle College (Philadelphia), Saint Charles Seminary, (Overbrook, Pennsylvania).
He served as Bishop of Altoona, Pennsylvania, from 1920 until his death in 1936. After studying at Louisiana Salle College, he entered Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary at Overbrook in 1876. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Jeremiah F. Shanahan on October 14, 1883.
He was named a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness in 1910, and vicar general of the Diocese of Philadelphia in 1911.
On June 28, 1912, McCort was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia and Titular Bishop of Azotus by Pope Pius X. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 17 from Archbishop Edmond Francis Prendergast, with Bishop John West. Shanahan and John Edmund Fitzmaurice serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. McCort was named Coadjutor Bishop of Altoona on January 27, 1920, and succeeded the late Eugene A. Garvey as the second Bishop of Altoona on October 22 of that year.
He remained at Altoona until his death at age 76.
John Jay Mccort has been listed as a noteworthy bishop by Marquis Who's Who.
