Early Life
Rhoades was born in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, to Charles and Mary Rhoades. The second of three children, he has an older brother, Charles, and a younger sister, Robin. His father was the cousin of Republican state Senator James J. Rhoades.
Raised in Lebanon, Pa., Rhoades graduated from Lebanon Catholic High School in 1975 and then studied at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, for two years. He applied to the Diocese of Harrisburg for enrollment in the program of priestly formation, and in 1977 entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary ("Overbrook"), in Wynnewood, Pa., where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy in 1979.
From 1979 to 1983, Rhoades studied theology at the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained his Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree. He also studied Spanish at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Spain during the summer of 1982. His Eminence, the Most Reverend Terence Cardinal Cooke, then the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, ordained him a deacon at St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, in 1982.
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