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Angelo Thomas Accera O.S.B. (November 7, 1925 – July 26, 1990) was a Catholic bishop who served the Archdiocese for the Military Services.




Biography


Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Accera entered the Benedictine order in 1944 at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama. He attended St. Benedict's College and was ordained to the priesthood on May 20, 1950. He obtained advanced degrees in canon law from Catholic University and the "Angelicum" in Rome. He was a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
He served for twenty years as a chaplain for the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a colonel. On September 29, 1983, Accerra was appointed titular bishop of Lete and auxiliary bishop of the Military Vicariate and was consecrated bishop on November 29, 1983. He was a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee on the Moral Evaluation of Deterrence. Bishop Acerra died July 26, 1990, at his home in Alexandria, Virginia of lung cancer.




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External links


Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, official website
Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States. GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2010-08-20.

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