Early life Denis Madden was born on March 8, 1940, to William and Anna (née Burnakis) Madden in
Carbondale,
Pennsylvania; his father was of
Irish descent and his mother of
Lithuanian descent, He later entered the
Order of St. Benedict, and received his undergraduate degree at
St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kansas.
Ordination and ministry Madden was
ordained to the priesthood for the Order of St. Benedict by Bishop
Lawrence Casey on April 1, 1967. Madden attended
Columbia University in New York City, where he obtained a master's degree in psychology. He then went to the
University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, earning a PhD in clinical psychology He was the new pope's first episcopal appointment in the United States. Madden was consecrated on August 24, 2005, by Cardinal
William Keeler, with Bishops
William Malooly and Mitchell T. Rozanski serving as
co-consecrators. In September 2021, the archdiocese announced that Madden was retiring as urban vicar. ==See also==