David John Malloy

Who is David John Malloy?

David John Malloy is the Ninth Bishop of Rockford, Illinois. Malloy was appointed Bishop of Rockford on March 20, 2012, and was consecrated as bishop on May 14, 2012 by Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago. Malloy's predecessor Thomas Doran and Jerome Listecki, the Archbishop of Milwaukee, served as co-consecrators at the ordination ceremony. At the time of his appointment as Bishop of Rockford, Malloy was serving as pastor of Saint Francis de Sales Parish in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Malloy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor's degree in Biology at Marquette University in 1978. After completing a year of theology at Saint Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee, he studied theology at the Pontifical North American College, Rome and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1979 to 1982. He was ordained priest on July 1, 1983 for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

He studied for and obtained a licentiate in Dogmatic theology from the Gregorian from 1982 to 1984. After returning from his licentiate studies at the Gregorian, Malloy served as the Parochial Vicar of Saint John Nepomuk Parish in Racine from 1984 to 1986.