received his episcopal consecration on January 4, 1968, from Archbishop Joseph Thomas McGucken, with Bishops Hugh Aloysius Donohoe and Ernest John Primeau serving as co-consecrators. His consecration was one of the first such liturgies to be celebrated in the vernacular. As an auxiliary bishop, he continued to serve as assistant chancellor of the archdiocese. Santa Rosa Following the transfer of Bishop Leo Thomas Maher to the Diocese of San Diego, Hurley was named the second Bishop of Santa Rosa on November 19, 1969. His installation took place at St. Eugene Cathedral on January 14, 1970. During his tenure, he implemented the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and worked to ensure the financial stability of the diocese. He established terms of office for pastors and associate pastors, opened a low-income senior residence, and created the Priests' Retirement Fund, Project Hope, and the Apostolic Endowment Fund. He founded the Centro Pastoral Hispano and re-dedicated Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Mission. He established two new parishes in his last five years as bishop, and ordained over a dozen priests and deacons in his last three years. Later life and death After governing the diocese for sixteen years, Hurley resigned as Bishop of Santa Rosa on April 15, 1986. He later died after an operation for an aneurysm in San Francisco, at age 81. References 1919 births 2001 deaths People from San Francisco Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Roman Catholic bishops of Santa Rosa in California 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States Saint Patrick's Seminary and University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Catholic University of America alumni Knights of the Holy Sepulchre