2000. He was succeeded by Bishop James T. McHugh, who had served as his coadjutor bishop since 1999. John McGann died at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre on January 31, 2002, at age 77. The Radiology & Imaging Center at Mercy Medical Center is named for Bishop McGann, as is Bishop McGann-Mercy High School. Bishop John R. McGann Village is a senior low income housing apartment in Bay Shore, New York. Two unnamed women alleged in 2019 through an attorney that McGann and other clergy and personnel of the diocese sexually abused them as children in the 1960s and '70s. See also Catholic Church in the United States Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States List of the Catholic bishops of the United States Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops References External links The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre 1924 births 2002 deaths American Roman Catholic clergy of Irish descent People from Brooklyn People from Brentwood, New York Catholics from New York (state) 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States Burials at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood