Ed Langlois

Feb 1, 2024 | ncronline.org | Katie Scott |Ed Langlois |Brian Doyle

The first laywoman chancellor of a U.S. diocese — who also made a meaningful but unattributed contribution to the creation of the official Catechism of the Catholic Church — died Jan. 27. In 1989, then-Archbishop William Levada named Mary Jo Tully chancellor for the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, where she would serve for 27 years before retiring in 2016.