Ordained on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, Bishop was installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Gary. Born in Detroit, he is the youngest of four children of James and Ann McClory (both deceased). He attended grade school at St. Francis DeSales in Detroit and St. Mary in Royal Oak, and graduated from Dondero High School in Royal Oak.
Bishop McClory earned a bachelor’s in political science and communications from Oakland University in 1985, a master’s degree in public policy and administration from Columbia University in 1987, and a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1991. After practicing civil law for three years, he entered Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. He continued as a seminarian at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where he obtained a bachelor of sacred theology from
the Pontifical Gregorian University and a licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Urbe (Angelicum).
Bishop McClory was ordained a deacon by Cardinal Edmund Szoka in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, on October 8, 1998 and ordained a priest in Detroit by Cardinal Adam Maida on May 22, 1999.
Then-Father McClory served as associate pastor of St. Therese of Lisieux Parish in Shelby Township and St. Isidore Parish in Macomb Township, with weekend assignments at Our Lady of the Lakes in Waterford; St. Blase in Sterling Heights; and St. Andrew Parish, Rochester. He served as a judge on the Metropolitan Tribunal and was administrative secretary to Cardinal Maida before being appointed chancellor of the Archdiocese of Detroit in 2003.
In 2005, he was given the title of monsignor and made Chaplain to His Holiness by Pope Benedict XVI.
In 2009, Archbishop Vigneron appointed then-Monsignor McClory to become moderator of the curia and vicar general, where he served as chief of staff, coordinating the central offices of the archdiocese. During this time he also served as pastor of Presentation Our Lady of Victory Parish in Detroit.
In 2017, then-Monsignor McClory became pastor and rector of the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica where he served until his appointment to the Diocese of Gary.
Bishop McClory has served on the archdiocesan College of Consultors, Episcopal Council, Presbyteral Council, Priest Assignment Board, New Evangelization Council, and as a faculty member at Sacred Heart Major Seminary.
Bishop McClory also served as a consultant to the Catholic Leadership Institute, a priest-observer to Region VI of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, spiritual advisor for the Catholic Lawyers Society of Detroit and as a chaplain to Legatus, an association of Catholic business professionals. He served on the boards of Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, St. Catherine of Siena Academy in Wixom and Loyola High School in Detroit.
He is a member of the Canon Law Society of America, a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy
Sepulchre of Jerusalem and a third degree Knight of Columbus and served as spiritual advisor to Detroit
Team Eight for Teams of Our Lady, a marriage enrichment apostolate.
-Text from the Ordination Mass Worship Aid