Ronald Gerard Connors

Ronald Gerard Connors was an American bishop in the Catholic Church. He served as the second bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of [San Juan de la Maguana|Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana] in the Dominican Republic from 1977 to 1991.

Biography

Connors was born in Brooklyn, New York. He professed religious vows in the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, more commonly known as the Redemptorists, and was ordained a priest on June 22, 1941.
Pope Paul VI appointed Connors as Titular Bishop of Equizetum and Coadjutor Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana on April 24, 1976. He was consecrated as a bishop on July 20, 1976, by Cardinal Octavio Beras Rojas, Archbishop of Santo Domingo. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops Tomás Francisco Reilly of San Juan de la Maguana and Edwin Broderick of Albany, New York.
He succeeded to the See of San Juan de la Maguana on July 20, 1977, and served the diocese for a total of 15 years. His resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II on February 20, 1991. Connors died at the age of 87 in 2002.