Associate Pastor

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has launched its own investigation into a Towson priest arrested this month on charges of indecent exposure at an adult store. Mark Stewart Bullock, 47, is scheduled for a March 6 court appearance in District Court in Harford County on misdemeanor charges that carry a maximum fine of $1,000 and three years in prison. Church officials have removed "all his faculties to function as a priest," said Sean Caine, archdiocese spokesman. "The archdiocese is doing its own investigation and will be speaking to anyone who might help us understand what is happening in his life," Caine said.

The Rev. Thomas Walsh, a Franciscan friar and pastor of a Rosedale congregation who had been the longest-serving Archbishop Curley High School religious faculty member, died of a heart attack Saturday at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 60. The pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation, he had spent more than 25 years as a teacher and guidance counselor at the Northeast Baltimore boys school, which will be closed Friday to honor his life and to allow students to attend his funeral.

The Rev. Marie L. Davies has become the first associate pastor assigned to St. Paul's United Methodist Church in New Windsor in 96 years.She's a city woman. But she's learning.At Arlington United Methodist Church in Baltimore, where Ms. Davies has been a member for years, the pastors never had a liturgist who couldn't make it to Sunday services because his cows got loose. In New Windsor, they did.Ms. Davies joined the St. Paul's staff as a part-time associate pastor July 1. She will work two to three days a week there and will remain for at least a year.

The Rev. Earl Joseph John Cote, the retired pastor of a Pikesville Roman Catholic church, died of cardiac arrest Jan. 27 at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was stricken while driving on Putty Hill Road as he headed to say daily Mass for the School Sisters of Notre Dame. He was 68. Born in Baltimore and raised on Robb Street, he attended St. Bernard School and was a 1961 Loyola High School graduate. He decided to enter the priesthood and studied at the old St. Charles College in Catonsville and at St. Mary's Minor Seminary on Paca Street.

The Rev. Theodora J. "Dora" McLean, a registered nurse who was a founder and associate pastor of Christian Unity Temple Christian Community Church, died July 22 from complications of a stroke at Sinai Hospital. The Halethorpe resident was 82. The daughter of a blacksmith and a homemaker, the former Theodora J. Jackson was born one of 10 children in Nelson County, Va., where she was raised and graduated in 1950 from Nelson County High School. She moved to Baltimore and in 1950 married Joseph Lee McLean Sr., who worked at Eastern Stainless Steel Co. Mrs. McLean and her husband were members of Gillis Memorial Christian Community Church of Baltimore and were founding members with an older sister, the late Rev. Maude H. Coleman, of Christian Unity Temple in 1966.

A Mass of Christian burial for the Rev. Gregory Smith, who had served as associate pastor of two Baltimore-area churches before retiring in May because of bad health, will be offered at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, 200 Ware Ave., Towson.Father Smith, who was 68, died of an apparent heart attack Thursday at the Towson apartment to which he had moved 10 days ago.From 1973 until 1985, he was associate pastor at Immaculate Conception Church, where he participated in a pilot program of Associated Catholic Charities for separated and divorced people that was a forerunner of its present SWORD program.

The Rev. Robert C. Wilder, associate pastor of a Northeast Baltimore church, died Friday of a blood clot at Franklin Square Hospital Center. The Rosedale resident was 77. He served at Calvary Tabernacle, 6008 Old Harford Road, where services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow. He began his ministry there in 1987. Born in Clark's Summit, Pa., he served in the Navy during World War II and earned a degree from Nyack College in Nyack, N.Y. A member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, he served Pennsylvania and New Jersey churches before moving to eastern Baltimore County in 1964.

The Rev. Robert Christopher Jones, associate pastor of St. Ursula's Roman Catholic Church in Parkville, died Thursday of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 47. A member of the Redemptorist order, he was also chaplain of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson. He led an outreach effort on behalf of orphaned Romanian children. Friends recalled Father Jones as an adventurous person -- a bearded, tall and rangy man who walked at a brisk pace. He was popular with students at both his Parkville church's parochial school and at Notre Dame, where he often cheered athletes by the track finish line.

The Rev. Madeline F. Miller, a retired Baltimore public schools educator and associate pastor of Enon Baptist Church, died of lung cancer Friday at Union Memorial Hospital. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 71. Miss Miller was born in Richmond, Va., and moved with her family to Baltimore, where she graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in 1945. She returned to her education after raising a daughter, earning an associate's degree from what is now Baltimore City Community College in 1972.

The Rev. Joseph A. Cawley, Society of Jesus, former associate pastor at St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church and president of Loyola High School, died Dec. 4 of cancer at the Province Infirmary at Loyola Center in Philadelphia. He was 86.Father Cawley, who taught at Loyola College in Baltimore during the 1940s, was later rector of the Jesuit Community and president of Loyola High School at Blakefield from 1960 to 1966.He was associate pastor of historic St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church on North Calvert Street from 1989 to 1991, when he retired to the order's retirement community in Wernersville, Pa.The former chemistry teacher and Jesuit community administrator, who continued wearing the traditional black Jesuit cassock after it fell out of use, was a familiar figure in Baltimore where he was known for his Irish ways and witty sermons that reflected his long years in the classroom.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has launched its own investigation into a Towson priest arrested this month on charges of indecent exposure at an adult store. Mark Stewart Bullock, 47, is scheduled for a March 6 court appearance in District Court in Harford County on misdemeanor charges that carry a maximum fine of $1,000 and three years in prison. Church officials have removed "all his faculties to function as a priest," said Sean Caine, archdiocese spokesman. "The archdiocese is doing its own investigation and will be speaking to anyone who might help us understand what is happening in his life," Caine said.

Msgr. Robert Albert Bozel, a retired pastor of a Howard County parish recalled for his voluminous correspondence with friends and members of his congregation, died of pneumonia Saturday at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton, he attended St. Dominic's School. "He was from a large family that included vocations to the religious life," said a friend, Msgr. George B. Moeller of Timonium. "He was a warm and personable guy who tried to spread that happiness.

The Rev. John Anson "Jack" Mote, retired pastor of the old Wilson Memorial United Methodist Church, died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 4 at his home on Camano Island, Wash. The former North Baltimore resident was 91. Born in Piqua, Ohio, he was a graduate of what was then Western Maryland College who had served in the Army during World War II. He opposed the war on moral grounds "In 1944, when he asked to be released from the Army as a conscientious objector, Mote was a 24-year-old attendant at Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania.

The Rev. Theodora J. "Dora" McLean, a registered nurse who was a founder and associate pastor of Christian Unity Temple Christian Community Church, died July 22 from complications of a stroke at Sinai Hospital. The Halethorpe resident was 82. The daughter of a blacksmith and a homemaker, the former Theodora J. Jackson was born one of 10 children in Nelson County, Va., where she was raised and graduated in 1950 from Nelson County High School. She moved to Baltimore and in 1950 married Joseph Lee McLean Sr., who worked at Eastern Stainless Steel Co. Mrs. McLean and her husband were members of Gillis Memorial Christian Community Church of Baltimore and were founding members with an older sister, the late Rev. Maude H. Coleman, of Christian Unity Temple in 1966.

The Rev. Edward Bernard Hemler, a former educator who had been pastor of St. Mark Roman Catholic Church in Fallston, died Sunday of internal bleeding at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 74. Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Father Hemler was inspired to study for the priesthood by the priests he encountered at St. Mark's Church in Catonsville. He was a teenager when he entered St. Charles Minor Seminary in Catonsville in 1951 and pursued further religious studies at St. Mary's Seminary on Paca Street, and later at St. Mary's Seminary & University in Roland Park.

THE REV. Richard Bozzelli, associate pastor at St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in Clarksville, is leaving. Father Rich, as he is known to his parishioners, will soon become pastor at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore. Cardinal William H. Keeler made the appointment, effective Feb. 7. Until then, Father Rich is splitting his time between the two parishes. Monsignor Joseph L. Luca, pastor at St. Louis, shared the news with parishioners last month. "Obviously, this is a great loss for our parish," he said, "but at the same time [it]