Paul Stephen Loverde
PAUL STEPHEN LOVERDE
Born : September 3, 1940
Deceased :
Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford, 1988-1993
Bishop of Ogdensburg, 1993-1999
Bishop of Arlington, 1999 - 2016
 Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford |
 Bishop of Ogdensburg |
 Bishop of Arlington |
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Origin/meaning
As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.
The field is green to reflect that the English translation of the Bishop's Italian surname means "the green one." On this field are an interlaced silver anchor, the symbol of hope, and a gold monogram of the Blessed Virgin Mary, taken from the arms of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, who appointed Bishop Loverde to the episcopacy during the Marian Year of 1987-88. This conjoined symbolism, which is actually taken from a design on the Bishop's chalice, states, graphically, that our hope comes from Christ through Mary in her title of Our Lady of Hope, a title that has been a particular favorite of Bishop Loverde since his childhood. This charge additionally resembles the "Resurrection Cross," the complete symbol of Christian Hope, for it was by the Resurrection that Christ, Our Lord, gave us all the hope f Eternal Life.
The silver star represents Polaris, the North Star. This device is taken from the arms of the Diocese of Norwich, whose name means "North Town," and reflects that before his call to the episcopacy, His Excellency, Bishop Loverde was a priest of this eastern Connecticut diocese.
At the bottom of the Bishop's personal arms are some blue and silver wavy bars, the heraldic representation of water, taken from the arms of the Archdiocese of Hartford, where His Excellency served as an Auxiliary Bishop. The wavy bars are also used to represent the Pawcatuck River at the Bishop's home town of the same name.
Coming forth from the water are three gold hills to honor the Italian heritage of the Bishop's parents, Paul and Ann Marie "Mary" (Conti) Loverde, because the Bishop's father came from the village of Pollina and his two maternal grandparents came from the villages of Tusa and San Mauro-Castleverde, all of which are within eyesight of each other in the hills of Sicily.
For his motto, Bishop Loverde uses the phrase "ENCOURAGE AND TEACH WITH PATIENCE," which is taken from St. Paul's Second Epistle to Timothy (2 Tim. 4:2). By the use of this phrase His Excellency expresses, as a bishop, that it is his duty and calling by God to encourage and teach the Faith to those who need it, with the gentle patience that each of God's children may need.
The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop.
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