Henry Mansell was born Oct. 10, 1937, in New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York, and attended the Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest of the New York Archdiocese in December 1962.
He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of New York in November 1992. He was named bishop of Buffalo, New York, on April 18, 1995.
Archbishop Cronin was named to head Hartford in December 1991. The archdiocese has a Catholic population of 698,655 out of a total population of 1.8 million.
