Archbishop Emeritus Peter Gerety of Newark, who was being cared for by the Little Sisters of the Poor in Totowa, New Jersey, has died aged 104.

According to a remembrance of Archbishop Gerety posted by the archdiocese on its website, he was the world's oldest Catholic bishop at the time of his death. By 2007, when he was 95, he was already the oldest living US bishop.

Newark Archbishop John Meyers in a statement called Archbishop Gerety "a remarkable churchman whose love for the people of God was always strong and ever-growing".