Jenky led the Peoria diocese for 20 years, during which time he opened the cause for beatification of popular media evangelist Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Priests as well as Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka, joined Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, for a Holy Hour this afternoon at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. The prayer gathering came as Bishop Jenky nears his 75th birthday on March 3 and prepares for retirement. The Catholic Post pic.twitter.com/KZLU3oj7u0
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The diocese, which serves almost 200,000 Catholics in central Illinois, was Sheen’s home for more than 30 years, and the place of his planned December 2019 beatification Mass before it was abruptly canceled less than three weeks beforehand.
Sheen was a priest for the Diocese of Peoria, but spent the last 28 years of his life in New York state, where he was first an auxiliary bishop of New York City, and then bishop of Rochester.
Jenky was part of a years-long public tug-of-war with New York’s archbishop, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, over the desired transfer of Sheen’s remains from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to the Diocese of Peoria, which had overseen the investigation into Sheen’s life since 2002.
After three years of litigation, in June 2019, Sheen’s remains were transferred to the Diocese of Peoria, and his beatification cause was unsuspended.
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