After his ordination Pardy taught at the Maryknoll Minor Seminary for two years after which he was assigned to the mission field in Korea . In 1939 he became the superior of the Maryknollers in Korea . During World War II he served as a military chaplain in the United States Army attaining the rank of Major . He was captured by the Japanese and interred for ten months . For his service to the Prisoners of war in South Korea , Pardy was awarded the Medal of Freedom . From 1945 to 1948 Pardy served as the rector on the Maryknoll Minor Seminary and then as the director of the formation of candidates from 1948 to 1951 . That year he was sent back to South Korea where he once again became the superior of all the Maryknollers in Korea in 1953 . He was elected as the Maryknoll Vicar General in 1956 . Pope Pius XII named Pardy the Titular Bishop of '' Irenopolis in Isauria '' and Vicar Apostolic of Cheongju on July 4 , 1958
Medal of Freedom
Medal of Freedom (1945)
James Vincent Pardy