Portland’s most recent retired head of the regional Catholic diocese, Archbishop Emeritus John G. Vlazny, died in his Beaverton home May 23 at the age of 88.
Vlazny was born in Chicago and graduated from the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois, before attending Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as well as the University of Michigan and Loyola University.
Ordained in 1961 in Chicago, he served as the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1983 to 1987 and as a bishop of the Diocese of Winona in Minnesota from 1987 to 1997…