# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-leo-gerety
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:19:05.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-leo-gerety"
name: "Peter Leo Gerety"
slug: "peter-leo-gerety"
description: "Peter Leo Gerety was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Newark from 1974 to 1986. He previously served as Bishop of Portland in Maine from 1969 to 1974. Gerety was the oldest living Catholic bishop in the world at the time of his death at age 104."
tagline: "Catholic archbishop (1912–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Leo_Gerety.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1912-07-19"
deathDate: "2016-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1003344481605351
  historical:           12.47753866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Peter Leo Gerety"
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    title: "Peter Leo Gerety"
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    title: "Peter Leo Gerety"
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    title: "Peter Leo Gerety"
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    title: "Джерети, Питер Лео"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump