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Denis Madden is auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland and titular bishop of Baia. He is also chair of the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Before his appointment as bishop in 2005 by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Madden served as the associate secretary general of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Prior to this, he had served as the director of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. Madden began his priesthood in 1967 as a Benedictine monk before becoming a diocesan priest and then a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland. Madden received his undergraduate degree from St. Benedict’s College, M.A. in psychology from Columbia University, and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Notre Dame.