Denis J. Madden

On March 8, 2015, Madden reached age 75 and was required by canon law to submit a letter of resignation to Pope Francis. The pope accepted his retirement on December 5, 2016. Though Madden was officially retired, Archbishop William Lori asked him to continue as vicar general and urban vicar. In September 2021, the archdiocese announced that Madden was retiring as urban vicar.

On May 10, 2005, Madden was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and titular bishop of Baia by Pope Benedict XVI. He was the new pope's first episcopal appointment in the United States. Madden was consecrated on August 24, 2005, by Cardinal William Keeler, with Bishops William Malooly and Mitchell T. Rozanski serving as co-consecrators. Madden chose as his episcopal motto, In All Things May God Be Glorified, a phrase taken from The Rule of St. Benedict. Madden was also given the additional role of urban vicar for the fifty parishes in Baltimore.

After co-founding the humanitarian organization Accord Foundation, Madden became director of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine office in Jerusalem from 1994 to 1996, He was then appointed associate secretary general of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA). While at CNEWA, Madden was part of the long delayed 1992 restoration of the dome and the rotunda inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

Madden was ordained to the priesthood on April 1, 1967. Madden attended Columbia University, where he obtained a Master of Psychology degree, and the University of Notre Dame, earning a Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree In 1973, Madden assumed a post in the psychology program at the University of Maryland, concurrently working as a marriage and family counselor for Associated Catholic Charities. He taught as a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and provided counseling to the clergy and religious of the archdiocese as well. After about nine years as a Benedictine, Madden was allowed to leave the order and become incardinated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Denis James Madden (born March 8, 1940) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland from 2005 to 2015.