Harry Joseph Flynn (born May 2, 1933 in Schenectady, New York) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Flynn succeeded his predecessor, Archbishop John Roach, on September 8, 1995.
Previously, Archbishop Flynn was the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in south-central Louisiana, having been ordained to the episcopate, in Albany, New York on June 24, 1986. On May 5, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation from the pastoral government of the Archdiocese in accordance with canon 401 ยง 1 of the Code of Canon Law. He was succeeded by Archbishop John Clayton Nienstedt.
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