Robert J. McClory

McClory was born in Detroit on October 10, 1963 and is the youngest of four children of James and Ann McClory. He attended grade school at St. Francis DeSales in Detroit and St. Mary in Royal Oak, Michigan, and graduated from George A. Dondero High School in Royal Oak. McClory earned a bachelor degree in politics and communications from Oakland University In 1987, he received as masters degree in public policy and administration from Columbia University, and a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1991.

After practicing civil law for three years, McClory entered Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. He continued as a seminarian at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He obtained a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas(Angelicum). McClory is a 3rd degree member of the Knights of Columbus and is a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. McClory was ordained to the deaconate by Archbishop Edmund Szoka in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, on October 8, 1998

McClory was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Detroit in Detroit by Cardinal Adam Maida on May 22, 1999. McClory served as associate pastor of St. Therese of Lisieux Parish in Shelby Township, Michigan and St. Isidore Parish in Macomb Township, Michigan. He also performed weekend assignments at Our Lady of the Lakes in Waterford, Michigan; St. Blaise in Sterling Heights, Michigan; and St. Andrew parish in Rochester, Michigan.

McClory served as a judge on the Metropolitan Tribunal and was administrative secretary to Cardinal Maida before being appointed chancellor of the archdiocese in 2003.In 2005, he was given the title of monsignor and made chaplain of his holiness by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2009, Archbishop Allen Vigneron appointed 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, McClory became pastor and rector of the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak.

Pope Francis appointed McClory as the fifth bishop for the Diocese of Gary on November 26, 2019.[1][2] On February 11, 2020, McClory was consecrated.[3] He succeeded Bishop Donald J. Hying.