Episcopacy
John Myers, at 46, was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Peoria in 1987, with Peoria's Bishop Edward William O'Rourke as the principal consecrator, and Louisville's then-Archbishop, Thomas Cajetan Kelly, O.P., and the then-Bishop of Pittsburgh (now the Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, D.C.), Donald William Wuerl, serving as the co-consecrators. He served as Coadjutor Bishop of Peoria, and became Bishop of Peoria upon O'Rourke's resignation and retirement in 1990.
On July 24, 2001 he was appointed as the fifth Archbishop of Newark and third Superior of the Mission Sui Iuris of Turks and Caicos. He was installed October 9, 2001 and his Pallium was conferred on June 29, 2002.
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