Background
Richard Malone was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised in Hamilton and Beverly. He has one sister, Harriet, who teaches art at Saint John"s Preparatory School in Danvers.
Richard Malone was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised in Hamilton and Beverly. He has one sister, Harriet, who teaches art at Saint John"s Preparatory School in Danvers.
He graduated from Saint John"s Preparatory in 1964, and then attended Cardinal O"Connell Seminary and Saint John"s Seminary in Boston, where he obtained his Bachelor"s degree in Philosophy and in Divinity, as well as his Master"s in Theology.
He taught at Saint Clement High School in Medford (1974–1976) and at Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood (1976–1979), where he also served as a chaplain. In 1979, Malone joined the faculty of Saint John Seminary, his alma mater, teaching religious and theological studies and serving as registrar and dean until 1990. In addition to his duties at the seminary, he was also a part-time chaplain at Wellesley and Regis Colleges, and a teacher at Emmanuel College.
He was assigned to the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center in 1990 as well, as chaplain of Saint Paul Parish.
Within the Archdiocese of Boston, he was made Director of the Office of Religious Education in 1993 and Secretary for Education in 1995. On January 27, 2000, Malone was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of Aptuca by Pope John Paul World War II He received his episcopal consecration on March 1, 2001, from Bernard Cardinal Law, with Bishops William Francis Murphy and John Boles serving as co-consecrators.
Malone was later named the eleventh Bishop of Portland in Maine on February 10, 2004, and was formally installed on March 31. He sits on the Committee for Evangelization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and serves as chair-elect of its Committee on Catechesis.
The Bishop has produced and hosted programs for CatholicTV. On May 29, 2012, Malone was appointed ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.
He was later appointed apostolic administrator of Portland in Maine until such time as a permanent replacement was installed. He was installed in Buffalo in a ceremony at Saint Joseph Cathedral on Friday, August 10, 2012.
The Bishop is also a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus.