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ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON, DC
Most Rev. Martin D. Holley
Titular Bishop of Rusicade and
Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, DC
 Auxiliary
Bishop Martin D. Holley was born on December 31, 1954 in
Pensacola, Florida, the eighth of 14 children. His
parents, Sylvester and Mary Elizabeth Holley, became
Catholics as adults.
Bishop Holley attended Catholic
elementary schools; Tate High School, where he was captain of the basketball
team and a member of the school Hall of Fame; Faulkner State Junior College in
Bay Minette, Alabama; and Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. He
was a member of the basketball team at Alabama State and received a bachelor of
science degree in management in 1977. He also took graduate level courses in
business at the University of West Florida.
Bishop Holley attended Theological
College in Washington, DC from 1982-1984 and completed his seminary studies at
St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida in 1987. He was ordained
as a priest of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee on May 8, 1987.
Following ordination, he served as a
parochial vicar and then administrator of St. Mary Catholic Church in Ft. Walton
Beach, Florida. In 1992, he became parochial vicar of St. Paul Catholic Church
in Pensacola and in 2000, administrator of Little Flower Catholic Church in
Pensacola, then pastor in 2002. He held this position until his appointment by
Pope John Paul II as auxiliary bishop of Washington. He was ordained a bishop on
July 2, 2004 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC.
While in Pensacola, he served on the
Council of Priests, including two terms as chairman; as a Tribunal Advocate;
spiritual director of the Serra Club of West Florida and as the spiritual
director and an instructor for the permanent diaconate program. He served on
the Diocesan Commission for Catholic Schools from 1992-1998 and was the
director of the Department of Ethnic Concerns from 1993-1995. He has been a
member of the Joint Conference of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus
since 1983.
Bishop Holley serves on a number of
committees for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, including
Cultural Diversity, Communications and Pro-Life. He is chair of the
Subcommittee for African American Catholics and a member of the Subcommittee
on Africa, a consultant to the Committee on Migration and is on the board of
Catholic Relief Services. From 2004-2007, he served as a member of the
Subcommittees for African American Catholics; Laity, Women, Children and
Youth; and Bishop's Ministry and Life.
He also serves on the boards of the
DC Catholic Conference, Maryland Catholic Conference, Catholic Charities of
the Archdiocese.
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