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Most Reverend Joseph A. Galante, D.D., J.C.D. was born in Philadelphia, was educated at St. Dominic's elementary and St. Joseph's Prep in Philadelphia, entered St. Charles Seminary and was ordained in 1964.
He attended Lateran University in Rome, Italy, where he received his doctorate in canon law, and later the University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy, where he received his Master's Degree in Spiritual Theology.
He served in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia until he was named by Pope John Paul II in December 1986 to be Undersecretary of the Congregation for Religious in Rome.
He was a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Communications.
In October 1992 he was named Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas. A year and a half later he was installed as Bishop of Beaumont, Texas. He became (COA-JU-TOR) Coadjutor Bishop of Dallas, Texas in January 2000.
On April 30, 2004 Bishop Galante returned to the Philadelphia area and was installed as seventh bishop of the Diocese of Camden to serve half a million Catholics in the six southern counties of South Jersey.
Soon after his installation in the Diocese of Camden, he hosted 138 "Speak Up Sessions" over 15 months, an unprecedented outreach that obtained feedback directly from parishioners, clergy, religious and others on the ministerial priorities of the diocese. This consultation led to a multi-year planning process that has sought to address pressing challenges while revitalizing parish life in every area of the diocese, a process that is now the model for many other dioceses.
In 2007 he launched an ambitious plan to increase the circulation of the diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Star Herald, of which he is the publisher. The Catholic Star Herald is now the largest Catholic weekly publication in the mid-Atlantic region. He was recently awarded the 2010 Bishop John England Award by the Catholic Press Association for his work on behalf of the Catholic press.
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