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Joseph Victor Adamec (born August 13 1935) is the former Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. Born in Bannister Michigan Bishop Joseph studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical Nepomucene College in Rome and earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University. He was ordained by Aloysius Cardinal Traglia in the Church of St. Anselm in Rome on July 3 1960 for the Diocese of Nitra in Slovakia (the former diocese of his parents).
