Martin John Amos
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Bishop Martin John Amos (born December 8, 1941) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Iowa. He was installed on November 20, 2006 as the diocese’s eighth bishop in its 125-year history. He took over for Bishop William Edwin Franklin who submitted his resignation, per Cannon law, when he turned 75 on May 3, 2005.
Bishop Martin John Amos was born in Cleveland. He was educated at Benjamin Franklin elementary school, James Ford Rhodes high school, Borromeo Seminary College, Wickliffe, and St. Mary Seminary, Cleveland. He holds a Master of Science in Education. Bishop Amos was ordained a priest of the Cleveland diocese, May 25, 1968. He held several pastoral assignments after ordination, and later became academic dean of Borromeo Seminary High School. Bishop Amos was serving as parochial vicar of St. Dominic Church, Shaker Heights, when he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, April 3, 2001.[1]
