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Allen Henry Vigneron (born October 21, 1948) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Cayman Islands since 2009. Vigneron previously served as Bishop of Oakland in California from 2003 to 2009 and as an auxiliary bishop of Detroit from 1996 to 2003. [1]
On March 8, 1833, Father Rese was named to be the first bishop of Detroit with a papal bull in which Pope Gregory XVI declared as he erected the Diocese of Detroit. Father Rese would be the first German-born bishop in the United States. Ten months elapsed, however, before Detroit welcomed its own bishop. Father Rese desired to be consecrated by ...
He was Detroit's first American-born bishop, with his two predecessors both hailing from Germany. [5] During his tenure, he established a seminary for Polish Americans, and later healed a long and damaging schism among them. [2] In 1900, Foley wrote a letter for the Detroit Century Box time capsule. [6]
The Diocese of Saint Petersburg was erected in 1968 with Charles Borromeo McLaughlin (701) as its first bishop (cathedral pictured.) Bishop Justin Najmy (731) was named the first apostolic exarch for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in the United States in 1968 (cathedral pictured.) Humberto Sousa Medeiros (733) was cardinal and archbishop of ...
Gerard William Battersby (born May 15, 1960) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit from 2016-2024. On March 19, 2024, he was appointed Bishop of La Crosse. [1]
Foley established the first parish for African Americans, St. Peter Claver, in Detroit, in 1911, although chapels and missions for African-American Catholics had existed since the late 1870s. [25] The development of the automobile industry in Detroit led to a massive increase in population, and the number of Catholics in the diocese more than ...
Thomas Gumbleton, a Catholic bishop in Detroit who for decades was an international voice against war and racism and an advocate for labor and social justice, died Thursday. Gumbleton's death was ...
Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim (born October 1, 1937) is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States.He served as the Apostolic Exarch of United States of America from 1982 to 1985, and then, following its elevation, as the first eparch (bishop) of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, from 1985 until his retirement in 2014.