About Our Bishop
Bishop Victor Galeone was installed as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Saint Augustine on August 21, 2001. He succeeded Bishop John J. Snyder who retired in December 2000. Pope John Paul II appointed Msgr. Victor Galeone Bishop of Saint Augustine on June 26, 2001.

Bishop Galeone, son of Angelo and Rita Galeone, was born in Philadelphia on Sept. 13, 1935, the fifth of six children. His family moved to Baltimore in 1941. There he attended St. Elizabeth of Hungary School in Highlandtown, Md., before entering in 1949, the minor seminary of St. Charles College in Catonsville, Md. He was assigned to the North American College in Rome, where he completed his theological studies at the Gregorian University, earning a Licentiate in Sacred Theology. 

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