Former Jefferson City Bishop dies at 82

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.

A former bishop of the Jefferson City Diocese has died.

John Gaydos was 82 and served as a bishop from 1997 until his retirement in 2017. Gaydos passd away at St. Agnes home in Kirkwood,Mo.

Gaydos held pastoral and administrative positions in the archdiocese of St. Louis before his appointment by Pope St. John Paul ll As bishop of Jefferson City.

That church founded Catholic Charities of Central and Northeastern Missouri and also opened Father Tolton Catholic High School in Columbia.