of the Diocese of Ogdensburg. He was installed at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Ogdensburg, New York, on January 17, 1994. While in Ogdensburg, Loverde started vocation and evangelization initiatives. In 1999, he closed Mater Dei College in Oswegatchie, New York. From 1997 to 1999, Loverde was state chaplain of the New York Knights of Columbus. Bishop of Arlington After the sudden death of Bishop John Keating on March 22, 1998, John Paul II appointed Loverde as the third bishop of the Diocese of Arlington. He was installed on March 25, 1999, at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, Virginia. Loverde reinstated the permanent diaconate program, and allowed seminarians to study at Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts, the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, and The Catholic University of America. He also supported religious orders coming into the diocese, such as the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist and the Cloistered Dominicans. Loverde was on the board of directors for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Arlington, Virginia, The Catholic University of America, the Catholic Distance University in Charles Town, West Virginia and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He previously served on the board of Christ the King Seminary and Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Loverde was chair of the Committee on Vocations from 1995 to 1998 and was a member of the Administrative Committee from 2004 to 2008. Loverde won the Catholic Distance University's Founder's Award for his service to the university in 2010 and the Saint Luke Institute's Saint Luke Award in 2012. In 2012, a Doctor of Humane Letters was conferred upon Loverde by the Institute for the Psychological Sciences. On June 20, 2012, a woman sued Loverde and the diocese, claiming that a diocesan priest, Thomas J. Euteneur, had sexually abused her on several occasions in 2008. The defendant stated that Euteneur, under the guise of conducting an exorcism, had kissed and fondled her. The woman said that Loverde and the diocese had given Euteneur permission to perform exorcisms. In 2006, Loverde permitted female altar servers, at the discretion of the local pastors, in parishes and high school communities in the Diocese of Arlington for the first time. Prior to this year, Arlington was one of only two dioceses in the