Joseph Michael Sullivan

Joseph Michael Sullivan (March 23, 1930 – June 7, 2013) was an American priest and later Auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York in the Roman Catholic Church from 1980 to 2005.

He was elected executive vice-president of the board of trustees of Catholic Charities USA in 1979.

Sullivan served as chairman of the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens and of the Social Develop and World Peace department of the U.S. bishops' conference.

In the late 1990s, Bishop Sullivan chaired an ad hoc committee to produce a pastoral letter on charity, with which he intended "to reclaim the meaning of charity.

[2] He died on June 7, 2013, from injuries sustained in an auto accident May 30, 2013.