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Pope Francis appointed Spalding on November 21, 2017, as the twelfth bishop of Nashville. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was consecrated on February 2, 2018. by Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz , with Archbishop Christophe Pierre and Cardinal Justin Rigali serving as co-consecrators.
Pope Francis appointed Williams as an auxiliary bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on December 10, 2021. [2] [1] [10] On January 25, 2022, Williams was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Bernard Hebda at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, with Bishops Richard Pates and Andrew H. Cozzens acting as co-consecrators. [3]
Presented by Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns, Denis Brennan at Saturday Vigil Mass, on behalf of Pope Francis. 17 July 2014 Gerardine Babb For services to the Catholic church, community and education, in particular for her 12 years of service as Headteacher of St William of York RC Primary School, Bolton, England. 23 October 2014
The next bishop of Nashville was David Choby, named by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. A study released in 2014 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., cited the Diocese of Nashville as having the 8th highest rate of conversions to the Catholic Church. [18] Choby died in 2017. The ...
Each color on the map represents an ecclesiastical province. The divisions in each province show the archdiocese and its individual dioceses. The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Bishop Shelton Fabre from the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux was named by Pope Francis in 2022 as archbishop of Louisville. [30] The archdiocese was sued in 2021 by Sarah Syring, a former Catholic school teacher. The archdiocese fired Syring after the single woman told them that she was pregnant.
Francis appointed Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville as apostolic administrator for the diocese until the pope named a new bishop. [21] On May 7, 2024, Pope Francis appointed James Mark Beckman, a native of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, and a priest in the Diocese of Nashville, as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Knoxville. [22]
Before blessing the crowd, he asked those in St. Peter's Square to pray for his predecessor, "the bishop emeritus of Rome" Pope Benedict XVI, and for himself as the new "bishop of Rome". [170] Francis held his papal inauguration on 19 March 2013 in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. [18]