John Aloysius Marshall

John Aloysius Marshall (April 24, 1928 – July 3, 1994) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[1] After attending St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, he went to Canada to study at the Collège de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec.

[2] His tenure in Burlington was marked by a decline in both vocations and church attendance, but he still founded Our Lady of the Mountains Parish at Sherburne, Vermont, in 1979.

[4] From 1984 to 1990, Marshall headed an apostolic visitation created by Pope John Paul II to investigate the doctrinal orthodoxy of American seminaries.

[5] Pope John Paul II named Marshall as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts on February 18, 1992.

[7] In a 2007 civil lawsuit against the Diocese of Burlington, the personal file of Alfred Willis, a diocesan priest, showed that Marshall transferred him to a different parish after receiving sexual abuse complaints.