bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre on December 7, 1998, effective February 22, 1999. He succeeded to the office of diocesan bishop by right of succession on January 4, 2000. Death and legacy James McHugh died on December 10, 2000 in Rockville Centre, New York at age 68. In November 2020, a Vatican investigation into the case of defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick identified McHugh as one of three bishops who "provided inaccurate and incomplete information to the Holy See regarding McCarrick’s sexual conduct with young adults" when McCarrick was a candidate for archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington in 2000. References 1932 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States American anti-abortion activists Seton Hall University alumni Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni Catholic University of America alumni People from Orange, New Jersey People from Rockville Centre, New York Roman Catholic bishops in New Jersey