Bishop McGrath reportedly has been unable to overcome the pneumonia he contracted after undergoing surgery to repair a spinal disk injury. He is 77 years old.
McGrath, who was born in Ireland, served as the bishop of the Diocese of San Jose for two decades, beginning in 1999. He retired in 2019 at age 74, and briefly found himself at the center of a controversy involving his purchase of a $2.3 million retirement home using diocesan funds.In the early 2000’s McGrath served on a priest abuse task force committee with former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery. McEnery remembered McGrath as a proponent of a zero-tolerance policy for abusive priests.
“I know he tried, and that’s a lot more than you can say for many bishops at that period,” McEnery said in an interview Sunday. The San Jose Diocese, originally part of the San Francisco Diocese, was established in 1981. McGrath was the second bishop to serve the diocese, following Bishop Pierre DuMaine.
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