John J. McIntyre
John Joseph McIntyre was born on August 20, 1963, in Philadelphia, one of three sons of Thomas and Blanche McIntyre, and grew up in the Germantown section of the city. He was educated at St. Basil Elementary School, spent three years at Father Judge High School, and then turned toward the Redemptorists, studying at St. Mary's High School Seminary in Erie and earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. Alphonsus Seminary in Suffield, Connecticut, in 1986.
After two years teaching at St. Benedict School in Philadelphia, he entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in 1989 to study for the diocesan priesthood and earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1991. Ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia by Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua on May 16, 1992, he was parochial vicar of St. Dominic Parish from 1992 to 1995 and of St. Mark Parish in Bristol from 1995 to 1999, chaplain to the Sisters of Mercy at their motherhouse in Merion from 1999 to 2003, and secretary to the archbishop from 1999, serving Cardinals Bevilacqua and Rigali. He was named a chaplain of His Holiness in 2003 and a prelate of honor in 2005.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed him an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia and titular bishop of Bononia on June 8, 2010, and he was consecrated on August 6, 2010, at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. As an auxiliary he first took up the Secretariat for Evangelization, later served as episcopal vicar for Region 1, covering Chester and Delaware Counties, and by 2024 led the Secretariat for Catholic Human Services. He remains an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia at the as-of date.
McIntyre has served as an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia since August 6, 2010, under Archbishop Charles Chaput from 2011 to 2020 and Archbishop Nelson Perez from 2020 onward. In the Traditionis Custodes era the archdiocese's decisions on the 1962 Missal were the ordinary's to make, and the published record attributes the archdiocese's continuation of existing celebrations to the archdiocese itself, not to any named act of McIntyre. An auxiliary bishop has no competence of his own over the 1962 Missal in the diocese; only a governing act of his own, such as an authorization, a decree, or a dispensation he sought or issued, could move his posture.
No such act was found after searching diocesan news, CatholicPhilly, and the general record for McIntyre in connection with the Traditional Latin Mass and Traditionis Custodes. His documented episcopal work in the TC era is administrative and pastoral: the episcopal vicariate for Chester and Delaware Counties and the Secretariat for Catholic Human Services. Neither portfolio touches the authorization of the older Missal, and no source names him as a delegate for its celebration, as a celebrant of it in the TC era, or as the author of any Philadelphia norm on it.
The verdict is therefore no_record, and it is a verdict about his own record, not about Philadelphia's. It would change only if a primary diocesan document surfaces showing McIntyre himself authorizing, restricting, or sustaining a 1962-Missal celebration in the TC era. Attendance at, praise for, or service under an ordinary's regime does not count, and none of those is claimed here either. No site count is assigned to this tenure, because no source carries a count attributable to an auxiliary's own act.