- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
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- OUR
LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ABBEY
- DAYLESFORD,
PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A.
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- IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION PRIORY
- MIDDLETOWN,
DELAWARE, U.S.A. (BAYVIEW)
- Rt
Rev. John Michael Logan, O. Praem.
- b. Sunday,
Jan. 13, 1935 – d. Friday, Feb. 8, 2008
Our brother John Michael Logan
was born on January 13, 1935 and raised in
West Philadelphia
. He was graduated from
St. Joseph
Preparatory School
and attended
St. Joseph
College
in
Philadelphia
before joining the Order at Daylesford in 1954.
John received a B.A. in Philosophy from
St.
Norbert
College
in 1957 and was solemnly professed in 1959.
From 1957 through 1971 John taught the classics at
St.
Norbert
High School
, Abbot Pennings High,
Archmere
Academy
and
Bishop
Neumann
High School
for Boys.
John received an M.A. in
Religion from
Temple
University
in 1971 and a Licentiate in Canon Law from
Catholic
University
in 1975. That same year he was
assigned to the Wilmington Diocesan Tribunal and held the position of Judge from
1976 until 1985. From 1982 through
1985 he was a member of the Daylesford Abbot’s Council and in 1983 became a
Corresponding Member of the Juridical Commission of the Order.
John was elected abbot of
Daylesford Abbey in 1989. The
critical years following his term as abbot resulted in him and others separating
themselves from Daylesford Abbey and establishing Immaculate Conception Priory
in Middletown,
Delaware.
John worked in various
capacities during his final active years for the Diocesan Chanceries of Fort
Wayne, Indiana,
Wheeling-Charleston
,
West Virginia
and Camden,
New Jersey.
John succumbed to pancreatic
cancer on this day in 2008. His body
is entombed in the family plot in Holy Cross Mausoleum in Philadelphia.
